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Years after he gave up on rock music, Bob Mould plugs back in
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Boozing through St. Patrick’s Day with Bono, Van, and the Pogues
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Beer, BBQ, industry schmoozing: Rounding up SXSW 2008’s local delegates
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Summery pop bands brave Cleveland’s harsh weather and reputation
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It took them 10 years, but the Sadies finally craft a country-rock classic
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Recent Articles By Will York
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Down
Tuesday, October 23, at House of Blues.
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Ruins
With Wolf Eyes, Made in Mexico, Self Destruct Button, and Tusco Terror. Monday, October 15, at the Grog Shop, Cleveland Heights.
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Tesla
With Poets and Pornstars. Monday, September 10, at House of Blues.
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Kamijo/Shuttah
Martha/The Image Maker (Shadoks)
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Little Feat
Wednesday, June 6, at House of Blues.
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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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
Subject(s): tech-thrash, metal, Meshuggah
Meshuggah divides listeners. Some think the metal band's music all sounds the same; others are consistently surprised by its intricately played tech-thrash. Both sides have a point. There's little change from one Meshuggah album to the next. Practically every song builds on the same foundation of jackhammer drumming and percussive, cyclical guitar riffing, while mono-everything singer Jens Kidman barks over top of it all. It's what Meshuggah does with this limited palette that makes the music so interesting. Catch Thirtythree (from 2005) was almost unaccountably drab — especially following 2004's excellent I EP. ObZen is, in many ways, the same album as Thirtythree, minus the interconnecting segues. But it's far more engaging and memorable — proof that details indeed matter. And with this band, there are plenty of them. Meshuggah is at its best playing disorienting and crushingly heavy music at the same time, like it does in "Lethargica," "Pineal Gland Optics," and the nine-plus-minute closer, "Dancers to a Discordant System."
