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VietNam, Sick Puppies and The Showdown's Temptation (The Villanovan) VietNam storm The U.S. You can read pedigree all over these Brooklyn-based hippies. They are the realization of the efforts of Bob Dylan's stint with The Band, harnessing the understated eeriness and off-kilter structures of The Velvet Underground. |The independent student newspaper at the University of Oregon (Oregon Daily ... osh Ritter's folk stylings haven't always elicited comparisons to Bob Dylan and a young Bruce Springsteen, names that inevitably arise in pre-concert Q & As and album reviews, usually precipitated with a sentence hailing Ritter as the second coming of the folk rock powerhouses of the '60s.? Neil Young revisits glory days of the Fillmore East (Daily Record) Since his days as the wailing folksman of Buffalo Springfield and the frequent attachment of Woodstock veterans Crosby, Stills & Nash, Neil Young has metamorphosed into not only the most stable and palatable bridge between country and classic rock, not only the godfather of what would become the irreplaceable '90s grunge movement, but, alongside Bob Dylan, the presiding rock 'n' roll ... VTU Concerts (Collegiate Times) The chances of finding Vanilla Ice, Hoobastank, Dave Matthews Band, Ludacris, Something Corporate, Jason Mraz and Bob Dylan in the same place at the same time might be close to zero, but they have all been to Virginia Tech at one time or another. Music Preview: Pairdown puts an indie twist on acoustic music (Pittsburgh Pos... Ask an acoustic singer-songwriter about his influences and he might throw out names like Bob Dylan, Neil Young and Nick Drake. Group effort works best for Against Me! (Richmond Times-Dispatch) Once upon a time, Bob Dylan went electric. Soon after, Phil Ochs veered his focus from protest to personal. As for Tom Gabel of Against Me!, a few years ago he did a little of both. Dylan's influence remains strong (Seattle Times) One day in 1962, when they were both young Greenwich Village folkies, Bob Dylan spotted Maria Muldaur in a cafe where she was rehearsing... Elvis Perkins: Heartbreaking but Hopeful (NPR) World Cafe , February 20, 2007 · An up-and-coming folk-rock singer-songwriter who crafts brooding, timeless, sophisticated pop songs, Elvis Perkins has earned comparisons to Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan. Ryan Olcott's Mystery project (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) When his old band 12 Rods broke up, Ryan Olcott (right) could have put together another loud, arty rock band and stepped right back into the limelight. Instead, he started exploring new territory with the one-off electro-kink act Future Wives (co-led by Mark Mallman) and then his one-man circuit-bending act Food Team. The latter is based on the new musical art of manipulating/deconstructing ... New on DVD (USA Today) The Dixie Chicks meet the greatest documentarian going: Barbara Kopple (here co-producing/directing with Cecilia Peck). And if it lacks the human tragedy of Harlan County USA and American Dream though there definitely is underlying sadness to this story this film easily approaches those Oscar-winning Kopple masterpieces. Newsfeed display by CaRP |