Posted on July 27th, 2008 by Rossella Frigerio
Simon Le Bon, Red Carpet Massacre Tour, Malta.
I often say that the best plan is not to plan. And true to form, last night I had very little in the way of plans. Yet all it took was a few calls and before I knew it, I found myself being whisked off to the Duran [...]
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Posted on July 25th, 2008 by Kelly Murphy
It’s 100°F in Coney Island, New York City, yet my friends and I (drenched in sweat) are clamouring to get even closer to the stage in front of us and even cozier with the flock of moccasin boots-and-American-Apparel-clad crowd surrounding us. The setting?The Siren Music Festival, a free annual concert held on two platforms amidst roller coasters [...]
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Posted on July 17th, 2008 by Brina
It’s a grey, rainy summer’s day in Brixton. The floor-to-ceiling windows of one of the best hideaway bars in South London, Upstairs at The Ritzy, reveal a microcosm of the area’s residents running to escape the drizzle.
Nila Raja rushes breathlessly in to meet me, carrying a cardboard box full of CDs to promote the release [...]
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Posted on July 16th, 2008 by Christiana E. Molina
John Mayer, who has never been a huge fan of the limelight, has been caught up in the heat of celebrity gossip lately. The reason? His seduction of Jennifer Aniston. However, the latest headlines are no longer obsessing over his love life but are finally paying tribute to his roaring career.
Named one of Rolling Stone’s [...]
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Posted on July 12th, 2008 by Michael Coughlin
After the impossible-to-ignore success of the new wave of ‘indie’ music in recent years, along with the media’s conveyor belt-like production of the weekly Next Big Thing, it was refreshing to watch one of the few still-active pioneers of the style : ex-Smiths frontman Morrissey, who recently headlined the well-known O2 Wireless Festival in [...]
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