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Karen Schoemer hosts “The Schoemer Show” on WGXC 90.7 fm Hudson/Catskill and www.wgxc.org. She is the author of Great Pretenders: My Strange Love Affair with ’50s Pop Music (Free Press, 2006). She lives in upstate New York.

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Elvis at Stax: The Cream of t…

Elvis at Stax, the new three-disc collection of recordings made at the fa… more »

Elvis at Stax

If you’re the kind of person who used to care about Elvis, if durin… more »

Remembering Rumours

In 1977, Rolling Stone’s Annie Leibovitz set off to photograph Flee… more »

Fleetwood Mac, Rumours [Delux…

In 1977, Rolling Stone’s Annie Leibovitz set off to photograph Flee… more »

Interview: John Cale

John Cale is mostly patient and forthcoming while discussing his new stud… more »

Lee Hazlewood, A House Safe f…

The grizzled Lee Hazlewood loved to play up his beast status by pairing h… more »

Great Lake Swimmers, New Wild…

Over the past seven years, Great Lake Swimmers have painstakingly built a… more »

Great Lake Swimmers, New Wild…

Over the past seven years, Great Lake Swimmers have painstakingly built a… more »

Various Artists, Moog: Origin…

Synthesizer pioneer Robert Moog had an extraordinary connection with mach… more »

Fleetwood Mac, Rumours [Super…

In 1977, Rolling Stone’s Annie Leibovitz set off to photograph Flee… more »

R.E.M., Part Lies Part Heart …

If you’re one of those R.E.M. snobs who rolled their eyes and gagge… more »

Robyn Hitchcock, Chronology (…

It must please Robyn Hitchcock, now that he’s at or even (gulp) pas… more »

Fountains of Wayne, Sky Full …

Fountains of Wayne’s characters have suffered from a variety of neu… more »

Fountains of Wayne, Welcome I…

It's charming the way Fountains of Wayne write songs about white-coll… more »

Various Artists, Cake Or Deat…

In 2005 Lee Hazlewood was diagnosed with cancer, and set about making a s… more »

Wee Hairy Beasties, Animal Cr…

Every parent knows the tipping point between good and bad behavior: the d… more »

Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus…

Three songs into Olé! Tarantula, a typically Hitchcockian melange … more »

The Sadies, In Concert Volume…

The Sadies have spent the last decade mastering a mess of genres — … more »

Dan Zanes And Friends, Catch …

With its locomotive artwork and chug-chug sound effects, not to mention a… more »

The Replacements, Let It Be…

As protest songs go, "Seen Your Video" isn't exactly "The Times They … more »

The Cave Singers, No Witch…

With so many Beach Houses, Beach Fossils, Best Coasts and Tennises churni… more »

Over The Rhine, The Long Surr…

The most intellectually-minded, poetically-inclined listener might stand … more »

Cake, Showroom Of Compassion…

If the members of Cake took an oath against irony, recorded an album of V… more »

Paul Weller, Wake Up the Nati…

There's something touchingly naïve about the title of Paul Welle… more »

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Kicking at the Boundaries of Metal

By Jon Wiederhorn, eMusic Contributor

As they age, extreme metal merchants often inject various non-metallic styles into their songs in order to hasten their musical growth. Sometimes, as with Alcest and Jesu, they develop to the point where their original… more »

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