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Recent Articles By D.X. Ferris
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Akron’s Matinee club starts Cleveland outpost
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The 1900s
With British Sea Power and Pale Hollow (formerly the Black Amps). 9 p.m. Wednesday, March 26. $12 ADV/$14 DOS, all ages. The Grog Shop, 2785 Euclid Hts. Blvd., 216-321-5588.
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BoomBox
With Broke by Monday and Modquad. 9 p.m. Friday, March 21, $12 ADV/$15 DOS, all ages. The Jigsaw Saloon and Stage, 5324 State Rd., Parma, 216-351-3869.
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Vietnam Werewolf
Ohio's City (www.VietnamWerewolf.com)
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Musicians band together to fight pay-to-play
National Features
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Village Voice
A Long Way Wrong?
Another celebrated memoir threatens to blow into a million little pieces.
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LA Weekly
Hoop Dawg
Billionaire Donald T. Sterling owns the L.A. Clippers and loves the ladies. And those are just two of his problems.
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The Pitch
Children of the Porn
Elvin Boone's sex-shop empire crumbles as his offspring feud.
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Westword
The Good Soldier
When the Army tried to take down Andrew Pogany, they messed with the wrong coward.
By Joel Warner
Hot Rails
To Hell With the Hot Rails (MySpace.com/HotRailsMusic)
By D.X. Ferris
Published: March 19, 2008
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Subject(s): bluesy rock, Hot Rails
On its full-length debut, rip-roarin' Hot Rails plays the kind of punky, country-fried, bluesy rock that takes root so easily in the city's cloudy climate; under Cleveland's gray skies, this quintet makes its own heat. Providing hardcore beats for back-alley poetry, Charlie Druesedow guns his drums like a V8, and the roughshod chords of "Bitchin' Hour" sound like the band stole the keys to "Detroit Rock City," drove it through Medina's dirt roads, and returned it with a dented fender and straw sticking out of its grill. By this bender's end in "2 Tuff 2 Try," the blue-collar cowboys stumble into rivers and mountains, retreat to a bar, and wind up in bed. It's a hangover hard-earned.
