All posts by Chris Gerard
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50 Best Rock Albums of the ’90s
Back in April of this year we looked back at the Best Alternative Albums of the ‘90s. Then in June, we counted down the Best...
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Tori Amos enchants audience Saturday night at DAR Constitution Hall
Tori Amos loudly exclaimed that it was her “home-town show” as she waved her hellos to the enthusiastic audience that greeted her this past Saturday...
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Classic Album Revisited: The Cars, “Heartbeat City”
The Cars are one of the biggest and most important American bands to come out of the new wave scene of the late ’70s...
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Classic Album Revisited: Billy Joel’s “An Innocent Man”
Revisiting the classic Billy Joel album, An Innocent Man
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Flashback: Top 30 Hits This Week 30 Years Ago — July 21, 1984
1984 was one of the great years in pop music history. MTV had introduced a whole new wave of exciting and innovative artists that captured...
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Morrissey unleashes ambitious new album “World Peace is None of Your Business”
Morrissey has been in the business of writing pop songs that range from piercingly caustic to hopelessly dour for over 30 years now, since...
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Neil Tennant turns 60! We Celebrate with 20 of the Pet Shop Boys’ Greatest Hidden Gems
Happy 60th, Neil Tennant!
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The Number 1 Hits of Summer, 1994 to 2014
We count down the past 20 years of hits, from 1994 to 2014
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50 Best Pop Albums of the ’90s
Back in April, we explored ‘90s Alternative music and counted down the 50 greatest that genre had to offer. Now, as summer arrives and the...
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Tom Goss releases impressive new album “Wait”
Tom Goss is a familiar name around the Washington-DC music scene. He’s performed countless gigs around the area, he’s released a string of excellent CDs,...
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D.C. vocalist Justin Thomas Ritchie set to release “Feels Like Home”
Local Washington-DC based vocalist Justin Thomas Ritchie is well-known in the local cabaret community. His one-man show, On My Way Here, was nominated for a...
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Two members of heavy-metal trio Cynic come out of the closet, and unleash brilliant new album
Two members of heavy metal trio Cynic come out
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Michael Jackson’s “Xscape” a worthy tribute to the King of Pop
This summer will mark the 5-year anniversary of Michael Jackson’s death. His downfall and ultimate demise are a sad tale that has been rehashed endlessly,...
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Tori Amos delivers her best album in over a decade with “Unrepentant Geraldines”
It struck me while listening to Unrepentant Geraldines, Tori Amos’ first non-orchestral studio album in five years, that children born when her solo debut Little...
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Prince: Ranking His Albums, Bottom to Top
Thirty years ago this month, in May 1984, Prince was readying the release of the first single from his upcoming album and film, Purple Rain....
