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Peter Garrett

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2013

    Midnight Oil Reopens the Blue Sky Mines On Essential Oils

    In the U.S., Midnight Oil are probably best known for their single "Beds are Burning." The video helped define late-'80s MTV by showing the group (most notably tall, gangly, bald singer Peter Garrett) dancing amid native tribespeople in the desert, while the lyric forcefully argued that their ancest ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2011

    Life After Rock Stardom: 7 Artists' Post-Musical Careers

    naylandhouse.comFuture ordained minister MC Hammer wasn't kidding on his 1990 hit single "Pray."​Let's face it. Not everyone is cut out for - or interested in - being a sixtysomething rock star. But what type of careers awaits a retired musician? Many rock stars stay in the music industry real ... More >>

  • Music

    October 24, 2002

    The Gord Is My Shepherd

    For the Canadian multitudes and the American few, the Tragically Hip offer up secular gospel and quasi-religious concerts

  • Film

    December 7, 2000

    Movie-House Hypothermia

    Vertical Limit buries viewers under an avalanche of mind-numbing tragedies

  • Music

    March 23, 2000
  • Music

    December 11, 1997

    Hail to the '80s

    A rash of new compilations makes a case for the Me Decade's place in rock history

  • Music

    April 4, 1996

    Cult of Ferocity

    True to punk's roots, Bad Religion keeps the anger alive

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