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The Essential Music -- and Art -- of The Golden Age of Vinyl

Michael Sigman | Posted 02.06.2013 | Fifty
Read More: The Rolling Stones, Vashti Bunyan, The Clash, Velvet Underground, The Move, Nels Cline, Bob Dylan, John Mayall, The Kinks, Alexander Spence, The Beatles, Talking Heads, Can, The Incredible String Band, The Sex Pistols, David Bowie, Nico, AM Records, Jeff Gold, Fifty News
Michael Sigman

Five years after the "Golden Age of Vinyl" came to a close, the MTV invasion established the dominance of the music video. A few years later came CDs, with their tiny art and microscopic liner notes. The generation of great art representing great music was over.

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Dog Ears Music: The Ides of March and Its Afterlife Playlist

The Everlasting Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin | Posted 05.16.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Ian Hunter, The Rolling Stones, Black Diamond Heavies, The Brothers Johnson, Css, Ike & Tina Turner, Horse Feathers, Nick Drake, Everest, Foals, Billy Fury, Iggy Pop, Nico, Danielle Evin, Bob Dylan, The Hands, Music, mp3s, Asaf Avidan & the Mojos, Richard Swift, Phil Ramone, Death From Above 1979, Ed Harcourt, The Ides of March, Son Lux, Keren Ann, The Hives, The Cloud Room, Dog Ears, Entertainment News
The Everlasting Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin

This week we review music by Foals, The Ides of March, Nico, Iggy Pop, The Hives, Ed Harcourt, The Cloud Room and more.

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Tammy Takes Nico to Nihilist Nirvana

Michael Sigman | Posted 04.25.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Andy Warhol, Lou Reed, William Wordsworth, Tammy Lang, The Beatles, Nico, Velvet Underground, Elvis Costello, Chet Baker, Tammy Faye Starlite, Bootleg-Theater-Silverlake, Bootleg Theater, Video, Entertainment News
Michael Sigman

I never thought Nico would make me feel 14 again. That's exactly what happened last week when I caught Tammy Lang's performance of Chelsea Madchen, a fabulous show in which she eerily reincarnates the Warhol superstar Nico.

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Cultural Reorientation in Africa: Nigeria's "Project Runway"

Linda Constant | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Promoting Nigerian Dress Culture, Clothing, Cultural Diplomacy, Africa, Workshop, Fashion Designers, Cultural Balance, Goodluck Jonathan, Unesco, 2020, Globalization, Diplomacy, Western, Traditional Dress, Cultural Reorientation, Nigerian Fashion Week, Style, Nollywood, Umaru Yar?Adua, National Institute for Cultural Orientation, Fashion, Barclays Ayakoroma, Nigeria, World Decade for Cultural Development, Nico, World News
Linda Constant

Nigeria's image in Western media is a complex combination of exoticism, intrigue and danger. While most people are well acquainted with Nollywood (now...

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What's an Out-of Work Entourage to Do? Groupies, Sycophants, and Hangers-On

Shawn Amos | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Eugene Landry, Two-Foot Fred, Brian Wilson, Michael Jackson, Entourage, Slash, Al Sharpton, Sid Vicious, Jerry Garcia, Big & Rich, Pamela Des Barres, Grateful Dead, Memphis Mafia, Kato Kaelin, Elvis Presley, Andy Warhol, Deadheads, Hangers-On, Nancy Spungen, Groupies, Bubbles the Chimp, Perla Hudson, Sex Pistols, Guns N' Roses, Nico, Entertainment News
Shawn Amos

As the King of Pop's posse heads for the unemployment line, here are a few stories of other groupies and hangers-on. May they serve as inspiration and cautionary tale.

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