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Bruce Springsteen, Iraq and Me

Greg Mitchell | Posted March 14, 2008 | Politics

Read More: Bruce Springsteen, Iraq, Iraq War, Media, Media Coverage Of Iraq, Music, Politics, Rock n Roll, So Wrong For So Long, Springsteen, Warwire

The Boss and I go way back. Way, way back. But now we have ended up in the same place -- on Iraq and on the page.

Bruce wrote the brief preface for my new book on Iraq and the media. He writes of living "in a time when it's...

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Our Greatest Poet Inducted Into Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame!

Greg Mitchell | Posted March 12, 2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Bono, Hall Of Game, Iraq, Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed, Madonna, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Rock, Rock 'n Roll

Leonard Cohen, one of the few true poets to ever cross the musical charts -- he has also written some of the sharpest "political" songs ever -- called his induction into the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame on Monday night an "unlikely" event, surely the understatement of the week....

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Rock Has Come For Your Daughters

Sandra Fu | Posted March 7, 2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Arne Johnson, Beth Ditto, Carrie Brownstein, Documentaries, Girls Rock, Music, Rock 'n Roll, Rock 'n' Roll Camp For Girls, Shane King, Sleater-Kinney, The Gossip, Video

As the '90s passed, so did the trend toward powerful women in rock, such as Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon or Breeders/Pixies lifer Kim Deal. They were quickly replaced in the mainstream by vacuous vessels like Britney Spears and Jessica Simpson, and so the proliferation of young...

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Alternate Grammys: The Best CDs of 2007

Michael Giltz | Posted February 8, 2008 | Entertainment

Read More: British, Country, Folk, Grammys, Jazz, Mali, Pop, Rock n Roll, Sweden, Uk, World Music

A best CDs of the year list in February? Why not? (Calendars are so 20th century.) My end of the year is always hectic. Freelance journalists are deluged with work around the holidays because staffers want to spend time with their families. Add in time with my own family and...

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