David Gilmour

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The Big Hurt: Hagar the horrible

Plus award-winning awards and buggering Beatles
I was reading a fascinating article about Sammy’s new record deal, and an epiphany struck: every year, Sammy looks more and more like the Dude.
By DAVID THORPE | September 24, 2008

Nine-step program

The best pedals ever to happen to rock music
The history of rock, as a technical story, is a mix of skilled craftsmen and total doofuses sticking their fingers in wall sockets over and over.
By DANIEL BROCKMAN | September 08, 2008

Sound Czech

Tom Stoppard fuses the history and the music in Rock ’n’ Roll
Tom Stoppard’s Rock ’n’ Roll begins in 1968 in an English garden, where a piper perched atop an ivied wall is serenading a stretched-out blonde flower child.
By CAROLYN CLAY | November 13, 2007

Rockin' neurotic

Cat Power, Avalon, July 8, 2007
Nervously pacing the stage in a baggy T-shirt and jeans, Cat Power’s Chan Marshall is about the last performer you’d ever mistake for Tina Turner.
By BRETT MILANO | July 09, 2007

Identity crisis

02138 searches for its voice
It’s easy to hate 02138 , the Harvard-centric magazine whose second issue comes out later this week.
By ADAM REILLY | December 13, 2006

Roger Waters

Elegy for Syd
With Pink Floyd resting like Monty Python’s ex-parrot, it is once again Roger Waters’s job to assume the Floydian mantle, and he’s assembled a crack octet to take with him on the road.
By JIM SULLIVAN | September 12, 2006

Secret Machines

Ten Silver Drops | Reprise
The swirling psychedelia and deep, darkly textured arrangements perfected by Secret Machines give this New-York-by-way-of-Texas band something of a British accent.
By MATT ASHARE | May 15, 2006

Master at work

A solo flight from Pink Floyd’s David Glimour
The best guitarists can always be recognized by their sound, even if they spend their careers swapping amps, effects, or instruments.
By TED DROZDOWSKI | April 25, 2006

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