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Enemy lines: Richard Cook on half a century of reporting from the front line of popular culture - Music - the New Musical Express - Brief Article
At 50 years old, the New Musical Express is the great survivor of the music press. Its birthday issue trumpets half a century of "sex, drugs and rock'n'roll", ......(Continue Reading) Billy Corgan: over the years music's most penetrating singer-songwriters have straddled the line between poet and lyricist. With the recent publication
Billy Corgan has sold almost 30 million records, first as one of the founding fellas of alternative rock with Smashing Pumpkins, and most recently with ......(Continue Reading)Essence® celebrates music - Advertisement - Essence Music Festival - Calendar
A nationally renowned three-day event for the past nine years, Coca-Cola presents the Essence Music Festival which attracts nearly 200,000 fans and offers an exciting and diverse lineup for the ent...(Continue Reading)Give music a chance: despite Damon and ms Dynamite, today's protest singers can't match Dylan and Lennon - Features
A line in Edwyn Collins's biggest hit, "A Girl Like You", sums up our current predicament: "Too many protest singers, not enough protest songs". The ......(Continue Reading)Love Your Country - country music and social virtue
I went looking for the war on MTV and couldn't find it. True, just after 9/11, MTV did join with the USO to put on a special called "For the Troops." ......(Continue Reading)
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