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Sonics Tribute Album Gets Reissue Treatment

A 2004 album of songs recorded in tribute to early-‘60s garage pioneers The Sonics is getting reissued next month. The New Original Sonic Sound’s lineup consists of several members of groups who cite The Sonics as major influences on their respective careers....  read more

Mike Watt, Lee Ranaldo, more set James Joyce to music

[Above: Lee Ronaldo and James Joyce]We keep our ears pretty low to the ground where literate music is concerned, so news of producer James Nichols' project using James Joyce's poetry sent our wee minds a-reeling. The author of Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Finnegan's Wake has inspired popular music for years—Jefferson Airplane, Lou Reed and Van Morrison are only three of the most famous Joyce-referencers—but rarely has he received such extensive treatment this side of the high art/low art seesaw. ...  read more