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…

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Ani 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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