The Green Day-inspired rock opera, American Idiot, is now open for business. And the reviews are good [via The New York Times]: A pulsating portrait of wasted youth that invokes all the standard genre conventions — bring on the sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll, please! — only to transcend them t[...]
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December 30th, 2008 - 7:26 pm § in Perfect Lines
They Said It…
Roundup of various end of the year music lists...[...]
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