Rock, pop, etcetera
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Porcupine Tree; photograph by Diana Nitschke Interview: Steven Wilson of Porcupine TreeThe Volume blogTime Out New YorkSept. 20, 2010 Founded in England at the onset of the 1990s, Porcupine Tree was originally passed off as a "forgotten" old-school prog-rock band. But yarn-spinning ceded to singer, guitarist and bandleader Steven Wilson's knack for reconciling vintage influences
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(Published this afternoon on The Volume. Photograph by Naomi Ellenson.) Introducing his anthemic "Never Say Never" during a New York City concert on Tuesday night, teenage pop sensation Justin Bieber barked through a litany of stock affirmations, extolling the value of self-confidence and determination to the assembled thousands of shrieking preteen girls who—we were to
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The beauty of working in music full time is that it's impossible to run out of things to discover, even late in the day. Today's belated discovery, prompted by a pitch from author and freelance writer Kate Crane, was Samantha Crain, a singer-songwriter from Shawnee, Oklahoma. Just 24 years old, Crain spins agreeably dusty, lived-in
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The voice at the other end of the phone had a familiar Bronx honk. “Hey Steve, this is Ace Frehley calling.” I blurted out the first thing that came to my mind. “You’ve got to know how completely surreal that sounds to me.”
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Album review: Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles, Diamonds in the DarkSugar Hill Records, 2007Time Out New York, June 7–13, 2007Five stars (out of five) Had Boston-based singer Sarah Borges come along in the mid-1960s, she surely would have been roped into the Capitol stable alongside like-minded mavericks such as Wanda Jackson, Merle Haggard and
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