It's always dangerous when sportswriters include music references in their columns. Such citations are typically moldy -- as, for instance, Rocky Mountain News staffer Bernie Lincicome's dopey mention of Loggins and Messina, who hailed from an era "when music was fun," he claimed in a December 7 piece. And all too often, they're misleading or wrong, too.
Take Woody Paige's "Nuggets in Position to Stretch Win," from Sunday's Denver Post, which appeared following a Nugs victory over the New Orl
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Twenty-nine years into its career, the Church recently released Untitled
#23, one of its most accomplished works in an already remarkable string
of albums over the last decade. We had a chance to have a candid
conversation about the band's music, the true meaning of artistic
significance and its dazzling array of equipment with the charming and
affable Marty Wilson-Piper, one of the band's two main guitarists. Read the transcript after the jump.
Electric Six have been bringing the party to the unwary for six albums
in as many years, starting with 2003's Fire and leading up to the
brand-new Kill. The group's songs combine '80s rock, disco and New Wave into
a cranked-up, ultra-catchy sound all its own, with lyrics that mix a
David Lee Roth-esque bravado with surreal barrages of imagery revolving
around fire, sex, dancing...and air travel. Frontman Dick Valentine comes
across like a smarmy cross between Mike Patton and a Baptist preache
