When Coco Jones decided to sample and interpolate Britney Spears‘ classic “Toxic” for her recent single “Taste,” she knew she was taking a risk —and some pop fans were, in fact, offended. But for the golden-voiced R&B/pop star, those kinds of choices were the whole point of her debut album, …
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Peter Wolf, has always been one of the great rock & roll raconteurs, ever since his days as the loudmouth singer of the J. Geils Band. But the Boston blues madman has finally written the book everyone always hoped he would write, with Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, …
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For those who came of age during the early days of MTV, Peter Wolf will forever be known as the frontman of the J. Geils Band, whose “Centerfold” and “Freeze Frame” videos were as much a channel staple as Nina Blackwood’s mane. But Wolf’s career and adventures in music didn’t …
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