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...that 15 years after his last hit, Billy Idol is back on the scene? Credit the booming music nostalgia market, which has stirred up enough interest in the '80s to entice Morrissey, New Order, Duran Duran, Mötley Crüe and others back into recording studios. But while those acts made their previous albums within the Napster era and had modest expectations for their comebacks, Idol, 49, has been inactive since 1993's disastrous Cyberpunk and believes that his new collection, Devil's Playground, out March 22, may restore his former glory. "I'm not a retro act," Idol says...
...seat venues on the strength of his catalog and charisma. ("There's not much you can do about the face at my age," he says, "but you can keep your body together. I can still take my shirt off.") Impressed by his drawing power, Sanctuary Records--current home of Morrissey, Robert Plant and Kiss--signed him to the 2003 deal that resulted in Devil's Playground, which ... is really not bad. There's an inexplicable Christmas ditty in the middle and tracks titled both Sherri and Cherie, but the songs are well crafted and full of energy. If Idol...
...yard freestyle relay, the final event of the meet, proved to be the most critical. Trailing Johns Hopkins University by a handful of points, the Crimson, led by Zingale, Bailey, and sophomores Patrick Morrissey and Alex Paddington, needed to place high in the relay to secure third overall. The team did just that, capturing third with a time of 3:06.19. Harvard, with a point total of 341.5, edged Seton Hall University by a mere 1.5 points and Johns Hopkins by 3.5 points...
...indie-rock press, much has been made of Meloy’s choice to cover songs by former Smiths frontman Morrissey during this solo tour. Meloy is nowhere near the ostentatious firebrand that Morrissey is, but he’s picked up the Moz’s mischievous sense of humor, penchant for unreliable lyrical narrators, and lack of inhibition when it comes to appearing sensitive or effeminate...
...single retelling Irish epic Táin Bó Cúalnge in music. Now frontman Colin Meloy is taking a break to do a little touring on his own, and what kind of record should he be promoting? Yes, that’s right: a 6-track collection of Morrissey covers, only available at stops on the tour. All this quirkiness might be completely for naught if Meloy weren’t such a gifted songwriter. Meloy, who holds a degree in creative writing, pens tunes that are high on theatrical and story-telling effects, which you can tell even...