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		<title>An Impromptu Solo Set in Paris</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 14:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday, May 2. Paris. l&#8217;Alhambra. Alas, poor Matt has been battling a throat infection or something &#8211; nasty, whatever it is &#8211; on this tour. I&#8217;ve been on the road with him for years now and he&#8217;s only had to bail on a show once before but last night there was really no sound coming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>File This Under: &#8220;Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 06:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read Steinbeck&#8217;s &#8220;The Grapes of Wrath&#8221; over the past couple weeks. Having read &#8220;East of Eden&#8221; on the fall tour, I noted a distinct stylistic difference between the two. Always interesting to see the breadth of talent in an author. But more than that, as I read I was repeatedly struck by the parallels [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2001 in 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the pleasure of seeing 2001: A Space Odyssey at The Arclight&#8216;s Cineramadome with The Divine PK tonight and the experience provided a striking contrast to the first time I saw the film.  As a 12-year-old boy seeing the film with my brother in my town&#8217;s tiny art-house theater, I had expected something maybe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Faster Way to End a Tour</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night of tour in San Diego was a blast! After a very long with the Kelly Clarkson experience we were treated to an awesome crowd at a great venue (Valley View Casino Center) to round out the whole affair. And while our minds were occupied with the rocking, Kelly&#8217;s boys snuck out to give [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Variation on Song of the Week: ADD Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Childhood friend and heavy metal aficionado Bryan Reesman writes about all sorts of rock and movie happenings for publications like The New York TImes, E! Online, and many more as well as having written the liner notes for JudasPriest and AC/DC boxed sets! He runs the ADD blog, a great online destination for music and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Song of the Week: &#8220;What&#8217;s He Got?&#8221; by Graham Coxon</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a come clean: I think Graham Coxon is quite possibly the best guitarist of the post-dinosaur-rock age. Granted, that&#8217;s an age I just created and it&#8217;s possibly meaningless. But the thing about Coxon is that he is an ideal embodiment of jaw-dopping ability and inventiveness with a cheekily unabashed love of pop (classic definition) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stuff Has Been Afoot</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are about a month in to the combined All Night Noise 2012 / Kelly Clarkson Stronger tour and it&#8217;s been action-packed. Yesterday was my first proper day off since leaving home at the beginning of January (admittedly this has been sorta voluntary as I&#8217;ve been spending most of my free time editing and preparing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time Enough At Last</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s no secret. I love books. I don&#8217;t have a Kindle or an iPad. I find it very difficult to read anything on a laptop. Books are where it&#8217;s at. I love the feel of a well-worn hardcover. I like flipping the pages as I rest between chapters. And I like the feeling of having [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Song of the Week: &#8220;Why Even Try&#8221; by Theophilus London</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 17:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Timez Are Weird These Days. You can say that again. New music is getting harder and harder for me to come by. So much of my mental bandwidth is taken up by music I&#8217;m working on (which, yes, technically, is new) that I have very little space left up in my bean to open up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Song of the Week: &#8220;Rocky Top&#8221; by Porter Wagoner</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 05:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we were in Eugene, OR for a day off, I biked into town and sat at a great coffee shop (might have been called Vera&#8217;s) that occupies an old Victorian house.  I sat on a small sofa, sipping a soy latte and reading &#8220;War &#38; Peace&#8221; for a good couple of hours.  When I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Never Get Caught</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A memory appeared unannounced not long ago and has stuck with me. I could picture myself as a young boy, sitting on my parents&#8217; bed, possibly home sick, possibly just enduring a summer&#8217;s ennui. I&#8217;m reading a book that I had bought &#8211; based solely on the cover art &#8211; at The Book Rack in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Song of the Week: &#8220;Big Log&#8221; by Robert Plant</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 05:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even as a young metalhead, I couldn&#8217;t resist the allure of Robbie Blunt&#8216;s perfect, sanitized Morricone-esque guitar intro for this song, from Robert Plant&#8217;s second solo LP.  I recall a lot of noise from the RAWK community about how Plant had gone soft with this one but it&#8217;s got way more class than the sorta [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You Going?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 06:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every couple or few years I rediscover Simon and Garfunkel. Not that I had ever forgotten them but there is something so special and unique in what they created in their six-year recording career that it&#8217;s easy to find the new and unexpected in old and familiar songs. And so it is that I periodically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breakin&#8217; III: Electric Filigree</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 08:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zaentz can&#8217;t dance, but our boys Shiben and James sure can! Really. They can! Despite video evidence that may be contradictory&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Important Safety Message: Stop, Pop, and Roll! (close-out sale)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 02:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a digital revolution, the music industry found itself in a state of flux the likes of which it hadn&#8217;t seen since the advent of the long-player. The 1990s saw not just a boom in music sales but a bizarre (and, it turns out, illusory) surge of independent and fringe music. Even at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video Roundup</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 22:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a busy few weeks in the world of motion pictures. And I don&#8217;t merely mean that PK and I been watching the Harry Potter movies in order from 1-7a in anticipation of 7b. Uploads and exclusives have been popping up fast-and-furiously. So much so that I figured an anthology post would be a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Song of the Week: &#8220;Going Down&#8221; by The Stone Roses</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 17:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Stone Roses were a pivotal band for me, as, indeed, 1989 was a pivotal year for music.  Decades by definition mark a transformation and the 80s, in particular, were years packed of culture very much in need of a reboot. Musically, I can credit (my dear friend and drummer in many of my bands) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Great the Woods</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 23:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Usually, no matter what the venue, however storied, at the end of the day, a show is a similar experience from night to night. Playing Madison Square Garden was cool, but mostly because other people thought it notable. I had no real connection to the place, so I wasn&#8217;t particularly connected to the idea of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Song of the Week: It Never Rains in Southern California, by Albert Hammond</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 06:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Short and sweet today. Shiben &#38; I drove up from Los Angeles to San Francisco today to rehearse in advance of our upcoming show in Napa. I picked him up before dawn and we got out into the desert by sunrise. Thing was, the desert wasn&#8217;t quite the desert. I&#8217;ve driven that route dozens of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music! Muzik! Musiqué!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 23:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whole lotta shit going on this week. First off, Matt Nathanson&#8216;s new single, &#8220;Faster&#8221; is officially out today. Grab it for yourself. It&#8217;s a bold foot forward and away from the coffeehouse style that defined the first phase of his career and into something decidedly more, well, him. We labored over the album for most [...]]]></description>
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