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Paul Westerberg (AP/File Photo)
For yesterday’s Audio Files I mentioned my love of Big Star and also mentioned how Paul Westerberg and The Replacements name-checked the band and named a song after its leader in “Alex Chilton.”
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The Posies (Christine Taylor/Contributed Image)
One of my biggest regrets in life is not seeing Big Star before the passing of Alex Chilton. I was all set to see them for the first time at the South By Southwest conference in Austin, Texas, in 2010 when Chilton passed away days before the band’s performance.
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Gaz Coombes of Supergrass (File Photo)
Shake off that election hangover whether you are celebrating victory or drowning the sorrows of defeat with some dancing today.
First, I present Supergrass. “Alright” is poppy fun, which you also might remember from the movie “Clueless,” and the band’s album “I Should Coco” is still a classic of the ’90s.
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Suicide Silence has set up a memorial fund for the daughter of late singer Mitch Lucker. (Contributed Image)
Suicide Silence has created a fund for Kenadee Lucker, the daughter of singer Mitch Lucker. Lucker, who grew up in Riverside, died Nov. 1 after a motorcycle crash on Halloween night in Huntington Beach.
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Sponge had hits with “Plowed” and “Molly (Sixteen Candles).” (Contributed Image)
It’s election eve and I want you to know that I am choosing the ’90s for tonight’s edition of the Audio Files.
Up first is Sponge, who had a hard-rocking radio hit with “Plowed,” but I prefer the poppier hit “Molly (Sixteen Candles).”
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Suicide Silence is warning fans to stay away from bootleg merchandise to honor its singer Mitch Lucker, who died Thursday, Nov. 1, after sustaining injuries in a motorcycle crash in Huntington Beach on Halloween night.
The Riverside/Corona-rooted metalcore band announced via Facebook that an official t-shirt and memorial fund is being set up.
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The Used (Contributed Image)
Tickets for the second Finch reunion show at the Glass House in Pomona in February go on sale Monday, Nov. 5 at 9 a.m. Set your alarm–they’re going to go fast.
The band, which comes from Temecula, is playing the album “What It Is to Burn” in its entirety, which means you can hear this song, “Letters to You.”
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Men Without Hats
Every time I walk through the lunchroom in the office, the TV keeps playing a commercial that has Men Without Hats‘ “Pop Goes the World.”
While it’s not as well known as the band’s other hit, “Safety Dance,” the video is almost equally as strange. And the band still has the best logo ever. (See right).
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I just received an email from Juan Plascencia of Santa Ana with some photos and words about singer Mitch Lucker from Suicide Silence.
Lucker died Thursday after sustaining injuries in a motorcycle crash in Huntington Beach Halloween night. (Huntington Beach Police are asking anyone who witnessed the crash on Main Street to call 714-536-5666.)
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Mitch Lucker of Suicide Silence sings to the fans at the Mayhem Festival in Devore in 2011. Lucker died Thursday, Nov. 1 from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash. (2011/File Photo)
We’ve been covering the tragic loss of Suicide Silence singer Mitch Lucker since the news broke about his death yesterday morning.
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