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Thursday, June 09, 2005
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  • The Rock Snob's Dictionary : An Essential Lexicon of Rockological Knowledge, by David Kamp, Steven Daly
    The Rock Snob's Dictionary : An Essential Lexicon of Rockological Knowledge by David Kamp, Steven Daly (Broadway)

    How to Hold Your Own with Rock Snobs

    "The Rock Snob's Dictionary" is a new reference guide for learning the cryptic language of Rock Snobs, those obscurity-obsessed know-it-alls who love their rock music and use terms like "Seminal" and "old-school." Today, editors David Kamp and Steven Daly explain how you too can talk like a rock snob. Also: jazz critic Larry Blumenfeld stops by with a tale of two jazz festivals: George Wein's JVC Festival, which is a big, corporate-sponsored event by major stars at big halls; and the Lower East Side's Vision Festival, which is a nonprofit grassroots affair that gathers free improv and avant garde heroes for multishow nights at a downtown space. Together, they're a display of the breadth, depth, diversity and polarity of what jazz in June can mean.

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» The Rock Snob's Dictionary Web site
Irma Thomas

Irma Thomas

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August 22, 2008
New Orleans singer Irma Thomas has survived 50 years in the music business - and at least two hurricanes. She joins us to talk about her record, Simply Grand.

Bon Iver

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July 30, 2008
Singer-songwriter Justin Vernon spent a winter holed up in his father's hunting cabin in remote Wisconsin, recording songs about solitude that would be released under the name Bon Iver. He joins us to play some of them live.

Billboard Chart

Who's On Top and Who Should Be?

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August 14, 2008
Soundcheck looks at the artists who are reigning atop the Billboard albums chart -- and what their rankings tell us about the state of pop music.

Janelle Monae

The Next Big Things

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Paste magazine editor-in-chief Josh Jackson joins us to talk about Johnny Flynn, Janelle Monae, Bon Iver, Amy MacDonald and other must-hear artists who made Paste’s list of "The Best of What’s Next: 26 Emerging Artists You Should Know."

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