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No sophomore slump to be found in Mumford & Sons’ ‘Babel’ | Album Review
Even though the new Mumford & Sons album is new and much awaited, the band found a way to maintain its sound with Babel,keeping listeners hanging on to every last note. Mumford & Sons gave its audiences a small glimpse of Babel, releasing its first single “I Will Wait” in early August, and performing several …
Pearl Jam Twenty: Still ‘alive’ after two decades | Film Review
By Jay Powell // Staff Writer If grunge music had its own Mount Rushmore, then Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam would be the images carved into the rock’s face. While three of the four aforementioned groups have fizzled out into obscurity due to suicide (Nirvana), drug overdoses (Alice in Chains) or simply just getting …
Respect those who lost a hero in Kurt Cobain: Dead singer spoke to disenfranchised
By Mike Reed // Staff Writer | Photo courtesy of MTV Saturday night I was trapped between worlds. I had crashed the cast party for “THe Shadow Box.” MTSU theatre parties are, by tradition, diverse, so no one really minds crashers. Theatre parties get a little wild, and the majors share a common bond that many departments don’t. They work closely together …
Lovesexy: Prince puts out on his latest vinyl | Album Review
Story by Doug Stults // Entertainment Editor Prince puts the semen back in seminal on Lovesexy, recalling the sultry rumblings of Dirty Minds and all the tracks released prior to his ascension from royalty to funk rock deity on 1999. Making it a point never to repeat himself from a purely sonic standpoint, the purple chieftain …
David Bowie – Let’s Dance | Album Review
By Terry Morrow // Staff Writer Just when you thought David Bowie was never going to do another decent album and all dance music was buried with demise of disco, David Bowie and Nile Rodgers collaborate to bring a dance hungry America one of the best albums of the year. Mind you, this isn’t a disco LP. …
After long absence, Allmans come through
Story by Ricky Paul / Sidelines Archive This article has been published exactly as it originally was on Oct. 7, 1975. After a lengthy two year absence, the Allman Brothers Band has finally returned to recording with their newest release, “Win, Lose or Draw”. Many times such a long period without any product from a …