The Boss is slated to put the E Street hammer down on the UK’s Glastonbury festival tomorrow night and many in England are apparently wondering how they managed to get him there. We’d venture to say it probably involved a check with many zeros on it, but the Guardian posits that his willingness to appear may have been bolstered by some old-fashioned flattery courtesy of fellow Telecaster player and all ’round badass Joe Strummer.
What is with thugs right now stealing shit from rock stars? First news of Pearl Jam’s bass player being assaulted, and now Maximo Park guitarist Duncan Lloyd is also reporting that a treasured guitar has been stolen.
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The Shaking Hands hail from Gainesville, one of the few oases of bearable living in the deceptively idyllic state of Florida. Sharing half of their ranks with Young Livers, the feisty foursome play fist-pumping street punk well-informed of both the close-shorn and spiky ends of the spectrum. It’s a bit of a departure for a band from Gainesville, as Hot Water Music still wields a formidable influence over the jewel of Alachua County. Punk rock super-indie No Idea Records and its companion punk rock Fall Social The Fest continue to cast a long shadow in G-Ville, but The Shaking Hands are much more from the whoa-oh end of the spectrum, and not in a cheesy MxPx sort of a way.
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