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Aimee Mann Jacked On Latte At NYC Show
NEW YORK — It was fitting that Aimee Mann took the stage Friday at the Beacon Theatre completely wired on latte, as Mann’s recent release, Lost in Space, is an 11-song treatise on addiction. The singer/songwriter was so jacked on caffeine, by her own admission, that she paused after her second song, “Calling It Quits,” to calm herself…
Read MoreRed Letter Days Shows Wallflowers Aren’t Leaving The Dance
It’s a long and somewhat twisted road that has led the Wallflowers back to record stores this week with Red Letter Days. The band first met the masses with its 1996 commercial breakthrough Bringing Down the Horse, an album that helped to make the Wallflowers one of the hottest groups in America. Torchbearers for a…
Read MoreAimee Mann Finds Herself Lost In Space
Aimee Mann’s had a hell of a run lately. The Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter’s “Magnolia” soundtrack was nominated for Grammy and Oscar awards. Her self-released Bachelor No. 2 broke a 10-year cycle of label frustrations and established her as the poster girl for independent artists. And her Acoustic Vaudeville tour with husband Michael Penn and a…
Read MorePeter Buck Arrested For Busting Up First Class
R.E.M guitarist Peter Buck was arrested Saturday for allegedly assaulting two British Airways cabin crew members in the first class section of flight BA48 from Seattle to London, Scotland Yard spokesman Chris Cairns said. Buck was met by police at Heathrow Airport Saturday morning around 11 a.m. after the British Airways flight crew radioed ahead…
Read MoreDavid Gray Nimbly Climbs White Ladder At Private Show
NEW YORK — It was billed simply as a private performance, but for the industry-only audience assembled at Joe’s Pub in New York City on Friday night, it was a coming-out party for singer/songwriter David Gray. On the strength of the single “Babylon,” Gray’s 1998 album, White Ladder, has steadily climbed into Billboard’s top 40,…
Read MoreMichael Stipe: Man On The Moon
Listening to R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe discuss the comedian Andy Kaufman, one can’t help imagining that the singer is, at least in part, also describing himself. “I copped a lot of his moves,” Stipe concedes. Coming from a man who has been saddled since early in his career with the quasi-complimentary “eccentric” tag, that’s no…
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