DUBLINLIVE: DUM DUM GIRLS @ WHELAN'SSpicing up Dublin's Tuesday night with some good old-fashioned girlpunk.
DUBLINLIVE: COCOROSIE @ THE BUTTON FACTORYThe Paris-based siblings open curtains to a hauntingly beautiful performance-art show.
MELBOURNELIVE: BIG DAY OUT MELBOURNE 2010A right of passage for Australian teenagers, this year's festival featured Dizzee Rascal, Girl Talk, The Temper Trap, and more.
MELBOURNELIVE: BIG DAY OUT 2010 PREVIEWThe latest edition of the Australian festival plays host to big international names like Muse, Peaches, Dizzee Rascal and The Decemberists. But there's also homegrown talent you'll need to check out.
DUBLINLIVE: THE AMAZING FEW @ THE VILLAGEA drunken, 3D New Year’s Eve in Dublin, with an "amazing" twist...
DUBLINLIVE: NEW YOUNG PONY CLUB @ DUBLIN PORTThe London-based, new wave-inspired five-piece manage to do more than just brave the Irish cold.
CARDIFFLIVE: BIFFY CLYRO @ CARDIFF UNIVERSITYThe raging Scottish rockers invade Wales with new songs, growing popularity and sing-along choruses.
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Shuffle Better: Sharing a track a week in various categories that I hope you might enjoy, and that will improve (I hope) your ipod shuffling.
Cats sets a record; funeral for John Bonham; Saturday Night Live debuts; Bing Crosby dies.
The shortest single to go to No. 1 enters the charts; Janis Joplin dies at 27; Van Halen goes Extreme; Jolson makes film history.
David Lee Roth unsuccessfully channels Toshiro Mifune; MJ sleeps in an oxygen chamber; a surprising UK music fact; The Bangles bang no more; Bryan Adams sucks, but apparently not in the UK.
New York Dolls begin to dissolve; the debut of MTV Video Awards; David Bowie wins; and three in the same week from Dire Straits.
Although Bowie's The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars album was released when I was only about a year old, I would discover it later, at about 15. In my small basement bedroom in our duplex home deep, deep in the painfully straight, white, and conservative suburbs of Calgary
In the world of jazz, Oscar Peterson is such a towering figure that he isn’t considered a Canadian pianist but rather one of the greatest pianists in history from any place.
