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  Blondie's Chris Stein Switches Out His Guitar for a Camera

  December 14 at 4 a.m.

  Though he’s best known as the guitarist and a co-founder of Blondie – a well as co-writer on such hits as “Heart of Glass,” “Rapture,” and “Dreaming,” Chris Stein has been an avid and serious photographer just as long as he’s been a musician. With his lens, Stein has captured...

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  Steve Hackett: At the Edge of Light and in the Thick of Prog

  December 13 at 4 a.m.

  Guitarist and songwriter Steve Hackett doesn’t shirk from the term or his categorization as a “Prog Rock” artist. That’s perhaps not surprising, given his tenure with Genesis in the ‘70s, as well as the possessor of a discography inching toward 30 solo albums in addition to other collaborations of intricate...

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  Doug Clifford Drums Up Memories of CCR on Massive (Vinyl!) Box Set

  December 7 at 4 a.m.

  While it’s easy to assume that the Year in Rock 1969 was wholly dominated by English acts like the Beatles (Abbey Road), the Rolling Stones (Let it Bleed), the Who (Tommy), and Led Zeppelin (Led Zeppelin II), there was heady competition from an American band who were at the peak...

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  James McMurtry Ponders the State of the Union

  November 30 at 4 a.m.

  Since the events of the last U.S. Presidential election, there’s one regular social event that has gotten a lot more, um, interesting. And that’s the family gathering! I mean, what could possibly go wrong when you throw together in one confining house relatives who may not have seen each other...

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  American Aquarium Dips Their Toes into Political Waters

  November 27 at 4 a.m.

  Like about half the people in the country, BJ Barham and his wife went to bed late on the evening on November 8, 2016 a bit shocked in how the U.S. Presidential Election was trending, but confident the tide would change when the final results came in. When that didn’t...

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  Houston All-Stars Pay Tribute to the Texas Tornado

  November 16 at 4 a.m.

  The name Doug Sahm would not make any list of the Top 20 Most Famous Texas Musicians. Nor would it likely appear on a Top 50 roster. But among diehard fans of Texas music, his name and influence ranks far higher. After all, this is the guy who wrote “Texas...