Archive for November 1995
Goo Goo Dolls Live At The Academy: Less Noise, More Melody
Though their whistful acoustic hit “Name” has catapulted Goo Goo Dolls from obscurity to ubiquity, the Buffalo-based band is better known for the seering, Replacement-inspired clamor evidenced on their post-punk LPs Jed and Hold Me Up. Tuesday’s racous audience at New York’s Academy, however, were not soley MTV converts and had obviously hung with the…
Read MoreAni Difranco’s Wake Up Call: Battered-Eyed Crooner Is Ready To Kill
It’s still morning when Rolling Stone Online correspondent Benjamin Wagner puts a call in to folk-punkster Ani DiFranco. The 25-year-old singer/songwriter — asleep somewhere in Connecticut — is touring in support of her seventh independent release in five years, Not A Pretty Girl. While DiFranco’s confrontational songs have drawn criticism for their incisive edge, she…
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