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by Kevin Wierzbicki

. Artist S No one will blame you for seeing the name Echo • Artists of the Month: A & the Bunnymen and thinking, "Those guys are Speedhorn still around!?!" The band had their heyday in the • Today's Reviews: Lon States back in the mid-80s with significant radio | Will Hoge | Dethklok and video play of the singles "Bring on the Dancing Horses" and "Lips like Sugar" but that • The Last Goodnight W was about it. Beautiful - Pictures of Y Poison Kiss The story is considerably different in their homeland, the U.K., where six of their albums have gone Top 10, including the Evergreen album that came a full decade after the brief American breakthrough.

At the time this show was filmed in late 2005 the band was touring to back-up their Siberia Day In Ro release and four songs from that effort are • 10/12: Radiohead 1.2 performed: "In the Margins," "Of a Life," "Stormy Bassist Severs Foot- K Advertisement Weather" and "Scissors in the Sand." Korny Acoustic Solo To

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The band is not into stage antics; rather they go Experience Hendrix- Lo about their business of creating a lush 3 Doors Down- Is Lars soundscape for singer Ian McCulloch. Mustaine- What's He B McCulloch is barely animated, standing riveted Winehouse- Robbers O to the stage in front of his microphone for the • 10/11: Good Charlotte entire concert save an occasional walk to where Going to Prison- MC H his drink is stashed. Yet McCulloch has an Chart Boss- Britney Fo incredible stage presence; wearing his shades Power- Nine Inch Nails and taking well-timed puffs of his cigarette, Not a Spice Girl- Tori C coolly delivering his lines and being in the Allan- Matchbox Twent Fozzy- Loreena McKen moment like nothing else matters, he embodies more the essence of rock'n'roll front man as envisioned by Lou Reed. He knows he's • 10/10: Radiohead An masterful, too; it's obvious he's not kidding when Scalpers- Police Tour S he introduces the show closer, "Ocean Rain," as Hellyeah- Music Indust "the best song ever." You could say it's a shame Low- Fergie Be Illin- Lif Nominees- Sister Haze that these guys never really impacted these Dethklok Make Metal H shores but the fact is they are here with this Attack Dawgs- Poison- offering now and it's outstanding. Axe- more

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