Drew Fortune
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Nov 25, 2024 |
vulture.com | Drew Fortune
When it was announced that the Last Splash classic lineup of the Breeders (Kim Deal on rhythm guitar and vocals, twin sister Kelley on lead guitar, Josephine Wiggs on bass, and Jim Macpherson on drums) would be opening select dates in 2024 for Olivia Rodrigo, Deal was both shocked and gracious. “She just turned 21 on this last tour, so I’m amazed she’d heard of us at all,” says Deal.
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Feb 1, 2024 |
yahoo.com | Evan Rytlewski |Annie Zaleski |Leonardo Adrian Garcia |Gwen Ihnat |Andrew A. Dowd |Joshua Alston | +7 more
Most musicians keep their feuds to social media these days, but there used to be no better place to air your grievances than your radio-friendly single. Here are 23 rock and roll diss tracks that go beyond passive aggression. 1. Pavement, “Range Life” (1994)After 1992’s Slanted And Enchanted, critics started writing about Pavement as the voice of the slacker generation, and on the 1994 followup Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, frontman Steven Malkmus seemed to take that tag seriously.
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Feb 1, 2024 |
avclub.com | Annie Zaleski |Josh Modell |Joshua Alston |David Anthony |Noel Murray |Drew Fortune | +1 more
Throughout music history, there are numerous tales of bands that teetered on the verge of separation until a sudden burst of success made the grueling tours, creative disagreements, and personality clashes seem worth it all.
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Dec 8, 2023 |
vulture.com | Drew Fortune
wakes Friends, collaborators, and admirers on the life and legacy of a “machete-cutting truth teller.” When Sinéad O’Connor died on July 26 of natural causes, an outpouring of love and regret flooded social media over the loss of a massive talent and truth teller. For an artist who primarily regarded herself as a protest singer, pop stardom was never a cozy fit for O’Connor, especially in the early ’90s, when her actions were construed as agitprop or merely baffling.
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Sep 24, 2023 |
aarparrow.com | Drew Fortune
The Sandlot might not be the best movie about baseball, but for many Gen Xers, it hit the hardest. The scrappy, baseball-loving gang — Scotty, Benny, Yeah-Yeah, Squints and Ham — felt like kids we remembered from our own childhoods. We were teens or just barely adults when the movie came out in 1993, but it made us tear up with nostalgia the same way our dads got all weepy over Field of Dreams.
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