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Sparks Fly On E Street: Bruce Springsteen, "It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City" (1973)

Greetings ends not with a happy postcard from the Jersey shore, but with the tough-as-nails “It’s Hard To be A Saint In The City. You May Also Like: Reevaluating Bruce Springsteen’s ‘The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle’

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Download: Lindsey Buckingham, "Seeds We Sow" (2011)

Here’s a free download of “Seeds We Sow,” the title track and the lead single from Lindsey Buckingham’s forthcoming release on his own Mind Kit Records. You May Also Like: How Lindsey Buckingham Balanced It All on the Underrated ‘Gift of Screws’

Muse - 'Black Holes and Revelations' (2006): Half Notes

Muse – ‘Black Holes and Revelations’ (2006): Half Notes

Muse released one of the most completely self-indulgent, ridiculously over-the-top fun albums I’ve heard that didn’t bear the name Queen.

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Steely Dan Sunday, "Through With Buzz" (1974)

At ninety seconds, it’s the briefest of all Steely Dan songs, and one of only a couple SD recordings where strings accompaniment was used. You May Also Like: No related posts.

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Lenny Kravitz – Black And White America (2011)

No major artist has or will ever claim to be more of a 1970s-styled musical chameleon than Lenny Kravitz, since his whole career has been about simulating the analog sounds and feel of that decade You May Also Like: The Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’: Greatest of AllRead More

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Best of August 2011: Reader picks include Sly Stone, Adrian Belew and Zigaboo Modeliste

Here’s a look back at the Top 10 stories from last month on SomethingElseReviews.com, based on page views from our readers. Click through the titles for complete details … No. 10 — ONE TRACK MIND: ALEX MACHACEK, ‘VERY SAD’: Alex Machacek, whose thrilling pyrotechnic brilliance we’ve already raved about, peelsRead More

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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Greatest Hits (2003)

by Mark Saleski When this album arrived in 2003, part of me wanted to say that nothing much had happened since Blood Sugar Sex Magik. But the thought was really closer to “I haven’t gotten off on much of their stuff since BSSM. You May Also Like: When John FruscianteRead More

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One Track Mind: Carl Palmer, “Fanfare/Drum Solo” (2004; 2011 reissue)

This tune begins, in its familiar way, with a soaring keyboard signature we’ve all come to associate so fully with Keith Emerson’s opening of Aaron Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man,” as interpreted in 1977 by Emerson, Lake and Palmer. You May Also Like: No related posts.

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Shooter Jennings, Drive-By Truckers, others – ‘Southern Independent Vols. 1-2’ (2011)

‘Southern Independent Vol. 1 and Vol. 2’ are a pretty good representation of what’s out there in country and related genres that you’re not hearing on the radio.

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Battles – Mirrored (2007)

Three years into Battles’ existence, it had only issued a single and two EPs — until this, their long-awaited debut album. The wait was more than worth it. Where the EPs hinted at what was to come, they suffered a bit from a band struggling to define themselves. Mirrored provedRead More