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...years ago, ex-Pavement guitarist Spiral Stairs released All This Sounds Gas, a wonderfully post-indie record that was equal parts Neil Young and early U2. Comprised of shaky-yet-deeply-felt lyrics and guitar lines that lazily pointed at the sky without ever gathering the momentum to soar, the music lodged in the brain despite its modest ambitions...
...nude by the girlfriends of all his future band mates.) And their first gig was in a bedroom as part of a friend's exhibition, "Girl Art," where their objective was to make girls dance. But don't call them art rock, or "art wave." "I hate that," protests guitarist and lead singer Alex Kapranos. "People always call us arty. What the hell does that mean? It's not like we got a band together as some kind of conceptual abstract sound sculpture. We got together to make a pop band." Maybe, but they did gain notoriety through their...
...even know if I know how to spell my name anymore." George Harrison, Beatles guitarist, on his deathbed, according to a $10 million lawsuit filed by his estate alleging that Harrison's doctor coerced the cancer-stricken rock star into signing autographs for the doctor's children. The doctor denies the accusations...
...everyone has bent his or her life around the danger. Bill Briggs, 56, has been driving a Yellow Transportation tractor-trailer for 14 years. On Oct. 4 he was five miles from home, listening to a cassette of blues guitarist Walter Trout, when he heard the boom, then felt glass shatter across his face. He pulled over and found a hole near the roof. When he jerked open the passenger-side door, a bullet fell to the ground. Briggs was back on the road 10 hours later. "The chances of getting shot at twice like that are like me hitting...
DIED. RUBéN GONZÁLEZ, 84, pianist and patriarch of Cuba's music scene who found late-life stardom after his appearance on the Grammy Award-winning 1997 album Buena Vista Social Club and in the subsequent documentary; in Havana. González, who was rediscovered by guitarist Ry Cooder, was initially nervous about playing on the album: he suffered from arthritis and didn't have a piano (his was ruined by termites). But he welcomed the attention and happily began performing again. "If I can't take a piano with me to heaven," he said...