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Monthly Archives: September 2005

Pitchfork: “R.L. Burnside Dead at

Pitchfork: “R.L. Burnside Dead at 78”
Celebrated blues singer-guitarist R.L. Burnside died at St. Francis hospital in Memphis, Tennessee Thursday morning, following an almost 3 week stay. While no official cause of death has been announced, a representative from Burnside’s label, Fat Possum Records, explained that he had suffered a heart attack the previous year, and [...]

“There’s no telling where the

“There’s no telling where the Lips will go from here, but it’s almost beside the point — not just the best album of 1999, The Soft Bulletin might be the best record of the entire decade.”
–AllMusic.com
And that earned the band 4 1/2 stars (a distinction subsequently tarnished when bestowed on 2002’s Yoshimi Battles the Pink [...]