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Wayne Robins

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Wayne Robins has been a journalist specializing in music for more than 40 years. Since his first paid assignment, reviewing the Rolling Stones 1969 Oakland show for the Berkeley Barb, he has written for Creem, Rolling Stone, the Village Voice, Crawdaddy, Zoo World, the Colorado Daily, Komsomolskaya Pravda, and Japanese magazines Plus One and Music Life, the Boston Phoenix MSNBC.com and a few dozen others. Author of three books, he has also taught writing at NYU, copy edited at Billboard, and spent 20 years as the pop critic for Newsday/New York Newsday. His biggest thrill was playing air guitar with Keith Richards.

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The Police, Zenyatta Mondatta…

The third in a series of titles in Pig Esperanto, meaning essentially not… more »

The Police, Synchronicity…

The fifth album in four years during which touring was almost constant. T… more »

Tom Petty & The Heartbre…

Mojo is a record made with a minimum of fuss for a maximum of fun. "Jeffe… more »

The Weepies, Be My Thrill…

Sometimes you want to hear the big rock gesture, the effort and the angst… more »

Love, Forever Changes…

One of the most revered rock albums of all time, Love's Forever Chang… more »

Bicoastal Bacchanalia: The Ea…

Hotel California, the Eagles ’1976 album, has sold more than 16 mil… more »

Iggy And The Stooges, Raw Pow…

History will remember 2010 as the year of the Stooges and Raw Power, a re… more »

Ten Underrated Doors Gems

Has any ’60s band had such a prolific afterlife as the Doors? The L… more »

Galactic, Ya-Ka-May

You may have been wondering if Galactic, the New Orleans band together si… more »

Eric Clapton, From The Cradle…

Clapton followed his award-winning, best-selling Unplugged album with one… more »

Eric Clapton, Unplugged…

When Eric Clapton and his band performed an Unplugged set before a small … more »

The Doobie Brothers, The Doob…

Executives at Warner Brothers Records liked what they heard when a demo c… more »

The Doobie Brothers, Toulouse…

It's admittedly a little ridiculous to talk about a single Doobie Bro… more »

The Doobie Brothers, Stampede…

By the time Stampede arrived, the Doobie Brothers were well established a… more »

The Doobie Brothers, Takin…

The idea of mid-'70s Steely Dan as farm team for the Doobie Brothers … more »

Michael McDonald, This Christ…

Not being a Christmas music kind of guy but not one to scorn holiday chee… more »

Sivert Hoyem, Moon Landing…

Sivert Höyem was Norway's biggest rock star as leader of Madruga… more »

Billy Joel, Piano Man…

Billy Joel already had three shots at success before his first Columbia a… more »

Cheap Trick, Dream Police…

Dream Police, Cheap Trick's third studio album, was recorded in 1978 … more »

Billy Joel, 52nd Street…

The theme of 52nd Street, if you take its title literally, is the New Yor… more »

Cheap Trick, Heaven Tonight…

Apocalyptic visions and catchy pop melodies, easy-on-the-ear harmonies an… more »

Cheap Trick, Dream Police…

Dream Police, Cheap Trick's third studio album, was recorded in 1978 … more »

Billy Joel, The Stranger…

There was some dismay amongst members of Billy Joel's band about a so… more »

Iggy And The Stooges, Raw Pow…

It was 1973, OK? Even then, the Stooges two albums on Elektra (released i… 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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