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Are You In The Club? How Some Rock n Roll Fan Clubs Reward Fan Loyalty
Last week’s new releases left me feeling completely uninspired, so instead I decided to take a look at the lengths some bands will go to make their fans feel special. The notion of a fan club is...
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Mariah Carey Joins American Idol, But Who Will Bring The Viewers Back?
Back in May when rumours started swirling about changes to the American Idol judging panel we made some suggestions for getting ‘AI’ back on top as the preeminent singing/talent reality shows. You can...
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KISS Revisit Destroyer & Prepare to Unleash a Monster
KISS may have released their debut, self-titled album nearly 40 years ago but, it wasn’t until the release of 1975’s ALIVE! live album that the band received mass notoriety beyond being known as the...
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Will The South Rise Again? Lynyrd Skynyrd Return With Last Of A Dyin’ Breed
Lynyrd Skynyrd, or at least the group of musicians currently using the name made famous in classic rock circles back in the mid- 1970’s, have a new album titled Last of a Dyin’ Breed out this week....
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Fall Music Preview – Looking At New Singles From Green Day, Matchbox 20, Bob...
While August has been fairly lacklustre in terms of solid new album releases, there’s a ton of great material on the horizon for Fall 2012. Many artists have released singles from their forthcoming...
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BIFF BAM POP! Presents The Essential Back To School Playlist
It’s the time of year where parents rejoice and children across the country begin counting the days until summer. Somehow, the back-to-school season is upon us again, and summer 2012 is all but over....
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Exclusive Album Review – Bob Dylan`s Tempest Takes Us On A Dark Journey
Bob Dylan has spent the last decade-and-a-half criss-crossing the world on his ‘never-ending tour’ while releasing four critically-acclaimed albums and one head-scratching holiday record. Next week...
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Pink and Richie Sambora? In The Same Article?
There have been a ton of solid new releases over the past few weeks. Green Day, Grizzly Bear, Band Of Horses, The Killers and Mumford & Sons all have new albums out there definitely worth checking...
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Back To The Future: Bruce Springsteen’s High Hopes Reviewed
If you had the opportunity to catch Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band on their triumphant Wrecking Ball Tour in 2012/2013, you’ll recall that one of the show’s highlights was the reworking of the...
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Win Bruce Springsteen’s High Hopes!
High Hopes, the new album from Bruce Springsteen, released tonight at midnight, and now available online and in stores is a triumph by the living legend. How would you like to win your own copy from...
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Perry Schwartz’s RDIO Cure – Special Feature on Wilco’s The Whole Love
Halfway through Wilco’s eighth studio album, Jeff Tweedy proclaims, “I would love to be the one to open up your mind.” The lyric is found at the heart of “Open Mind”, by far the most straight-forward...
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Perry Schwartz’s RDIO Cure – Roots Rock Four Ways – Ryan Adams, Jim Cuddy,...
Alt-Country, Roots Rock, Americana, Folk Rock or Country Rock – whatever you call it, I’m a fan. There’s just something about the combination of great song writing, soaring harmonies and the perfect...
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Perry Schwartz’s RDIO Cure – How do you take your metal? Mastodon, Dream...
This week’s new releases weren’t all that exciting to me so I decided instead to take a listen to some recent releases on the harder side of things. While metal’s forefathers Judas Priest, Motorhead...
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Perry Schwartz’s RDIO Cure – Idol vs. Idol vs. Icon
Idol vs. Idol… A few weeks back I made mention of the first single from American Idol season 10 winner Scotty McCreery and how I found it less than impressive. I had no intention of listening to the...
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Live Review – Butch Walker and the Black Widows, October 19, 2011 MOD Club,...
Butch Walker hosted a basement house party at the MOD Club in Toronto last night and unfortunately, only a handful of people got the invitation. Walker, an incredibly talented...
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Villains and Monsters Week – Dexter: Hero Or Villain?
Sometimes, there’s a very fine line between good and bad. These days, the hero doesn’t necessarily wear white and the villain isn’t always the guy in the black cape. Nowhere is this more evident then...
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Perry Schwartz’s RDIO Cure – Stump Puts His Stamp On R&B While Joe Jonas...
There’s a lot of doom and gloom in the world today. So sometimes, music just needs to be fun. Forget about the deep lyrics and challenging melodies and just go for some good old fashioned pop music...
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Perry Schwartz’s RDIO Cure – Kelly Clarkson Gets Stronger and Brian Wilson...
Not a particularly stellar week of new material to cover. At this time of year many of the new releases are compilations, greatest hits packages and holiday records. Nothing wrong with any of these...
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The Beach Boys & U2 Deliver Timeless Classics With 45 Years Of History...
Last week I said I wouldn’t be reviewing any compilations or greatest hits releases as part of the RDIO column, but after listening to U2’s incredible reissue celebrating the 20th Anniversary of...
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Noel Gallagher Goes Solo, Hedley Grows Up and Etta James Bows Out in this...
Talk to anybody who’s been part of the music business in recent years and they’ll tell you artist development is a difficult thing. Major record labels find new acts, rush them to market, burn them...
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