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03.20.12  Who Is...? 0

Who Is…Gentleman Jesse

By Austin L. Ray, eMusic Contributor

A lot has changed for Atlanta rocker Jesse Smith in the last four years, both for good and ill. He got married, but also lost friends to cancer (ATL punk staple Bobby Ubangi) and drugs (Jay Reatard). He started planning a restaurant with some friends, but got violently mugged on Atlanta's streets. His band's profile rose, but he questioned if his relative success was worth the draining workload. It's this back-and-forth conflict that fuels Leaving… more »

01.31.11  Icon 0

Icon: Elvis Costello

By Douglas Wolk, eMusic Contributor

Smart, angry and mercurial, Elvis Costello is one of the greatest living songwriters; for better or worse, he knows it. The man with the big spectacles (born Declan MacManus) is an exile everywhere he goes: an Englishman whose strongest work owes its greatest debts to American country and R&B; a new wave star who hated the term and the scene and has spent a lot of the latter half of his career working with classical… more »

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