Prior to the 2003 release of The Essential Adam Ant, there hadn't been a career-spanning hits compilation on his career apart from the 1999 Sony International set The Very Best of Adam and the Ants. This 17-track collection shares 15 songs with that 22-song collection (as well as the same cover picture), so it would seem to be pretty much interchangeable, but that isn't the case. Even though this is shorter, this is the preferable collection since it has a logical chronological sequence and includ...   [ read more ]

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The book opens at a Beatles concert in Pennsylvania in 1960-something and ends with a cross-country trip to the optimism of the second gold rush in California. Whether traveling in search of tiny rock shows and rare records, attending his best friend's funeral, skipping classes, getting dumped by his girlfriend, or hanging out with imaginary super-hero friends, each section builds on the others to move half-fact, half-fiction characters through the memory of the author via Mickey Lawrence, the book's narra...   [ read more ]

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In an era where it has become popular for singers to take cover behind band name aliases (i.e. Palace, Songs: Ohia, Iron & Wine, Bright Eyes), it has become more of a statement when a songwriter sets out with their real name. For Adam Arcuragi hiding behind an alias would belie the nature of his songs -- highly epic; simultaneously sensitive, intense, and subtle. Arcuragi's debut full-length is an introduction to a bright new lyricist who combines the icy melancholy of Red House Painters with the classic A...   [ read more ]

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