Dan DeLuca is an Inquirer pop music critic. But his "In the Mix" column in the Weekend section ventures further afield, into books, movies, TV, the Internet, graphic novels and anything you might call "popular culture."
Email Dan at ddeluca@phillynews.com
For video of Baroness performing "The Line Between," go to www.inquirer.com/baroness
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When the members of the alt-metal band Baroness woke up on their tour bus en route to Southampton, England, one day last August, they had plenty of reasons to feel good about themselves.
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Don Was, making 'authentic' music at Blue Note jazz label
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There's a jazz man's adage, attributed variously to Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Miles Davis, that goes something like this: "There are two kinds of music, the good and the bad. I play the good kind."
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Adrian Younge draws on past to make music come alive
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By the time he was 18, Adrian Younge had had enough of hip-hop. It was 1997, and Younge, who will perform at the Blockley in West Philadelphia Sunday night with his band Venice Dawn backing Wu Tang Clan rapper Ghostface Killah, was already growing weary of modern music.
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Jay-Z and 'Gatsby' a match that works
- Jay-Z and 'Gatsby' a match that works'My life has got to be like this," says Leonardo DiCaprio, as Jay Gatsby, pointing his finger towards the sky. "It's got to keep going up," he adds, in Baz Luhrmann's version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, opening Friday.
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Mike Tyson's entertaining self-analysis
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In the ring, Mike Tyson obliterated opponents in the blink of an eye. The thunder-and-lightning pugilist once set a Junior Olympic record by knocking out an opponent in 8 seconds, and at 20 he was the youngest heavyweight champion in history.
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Not a stoner dude
- Despite the laid-back vibe of his new album, the Phila. songwriter-guitarist has an intense work ethic.The music on Kurt Vile's new album, Wakin on a Pretty Daze, is deeply relaxed and absolutely confident in its laid-back, stretched-out, fingerpicked trance vibe. So much so that it would be perfectly reasonable to assume that the Philadelphia rocker is a prototypical stoner dude.
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Iron & Wine seeks lusher sound in Brooklyn
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AUSTIN, Texas - The prevailing image of Sam Beam, who makes music as Iron & Wine, is of an abundantly bearded man alone on stage with a guitar, whispering songs to take your breath away.
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Jagger and the Rolling Stones, 50 years on
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When the phone rang one afternoon last week, a familiar voice was on the line. It belonged to the prancing front man of the band that throughout its illustrious and sometimes sinister history defined what rock-and-roll is better than any other in the music's history.
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Beyoncé headlines Made in America fest
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On Labor Day weekend, pop star Beyoncé and industrial-rock band Nine Inch Nails will co-headline the 2d annual Budweiser Made in America festival, which will again be staged on Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
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Bill Mallonee: Folk troubadour without an agenda
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Back in 1994, Bill Mallonee and his Athens, Ga., band, Vigilantes of Love, attempted to introduce themselves to a national audience with their fourth album, and their first with major-label distribution.
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