Broadcast’s retro-futuristic music has tussled many a shaggy bang since the 1990s. Lead singer Trish Keenan’s voice is something you don’t forget. She died today from pneumonia, after a two week hospitalization. She developed pneumonia after contracting swine flu in Australia. So sad (and terrifying). These R.I.P. posts are such a bummer. You flood yourself [...]

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For someone who grew up in a small town where the only music you could be exposed to was on MTV, 1990′s movie soundtracks were one of the few portals to discovering music. “Stuck In The Middle With You” appeared on the Biodome soundtrack and in Reservoir Dogs, cementing it deep in the loins of [...]

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Gary Coleman died of a brain hemorrhage this morning. The press release mentions he was still a virgin at 32 back in 1999, as he told Swindle Magazine. But the star of Diff’rent Strokes did get some eventually, and we hope that it was good. Though if you get sucked into the Youtube wormhole we [...]

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F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said there are no second acts in American lives and a resilient and lucky breed of Americans have been proving him wrong ever since. First heard from as the gravelly Memphis boy bluesman fronting The Box Tops, where he suffered rockstar burnout while making hit records even so crabbed an anticommericalist [...]

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Vic Chesnutt touched many folks, like Patti Smith, Michael Stipe—who produced his first two albums—and Throwing Muses’ Kristin Hersh—who is trying to raise money for his family—but the man who could play rhythm and lead with only two fingers has passed on. Unable to pay for kidney surgery and seemingly at his tether’s end, Chesnutt [...]

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