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Bands With Fans I Hate: It’s Not Them…it’s THEM!

You can’t love everything. I’m not only dubious about and suspicious of people who claim to not hate any bands, I can’t value their idea of liking a band, if they like everything – or say that they do. I’ve always maintained the list of bands I love is longer than the list of bands […]

CD Review of Kids of 88’s Sugar Pills: From The Archives

Kids of 88, Sugarpills Placebo: something of no intrinsic remedial value that is used to appease or reassure another. In one common placebo procedure, a patient is given an inert pill, told that it may improve his/her condition, but not told that it is in fact inert. Such an intervention may cause the patient to […]

Keef’s Life: That Horrible Keith Richards Memoir

The hype surrounding Keith Richards’ memoir (Life) has been bubbling away for a year or so, ever since the announcement of the mega-advance he received. From there it was all about how this would be the “best music book since Dylan’s Chronicles“ and so on. And I believed (a lot of) it, too. Unfortunately, Richards […]