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Supergroups
“This town’s not big enough for both of us,” the saying goes. Superstar musicians often find that one band’s not big enough. MATTHEW ALLEN goes over big bands’ Big Bangs

Music Videos
The music died on MTV, but it’s alive and kicking ass on the Internet. GREGORY CROTTY traces the democratization of those three-minute musicals

DEPARTMENTS

Letter: It’s practically biblical: Little David Internet beat up M.T.V. Goliath. Aaron Brown tells the tale

Opening Act Snippets, fun, interviews, reviews, festival wrap-up, the tour from Hell

Kickin’ in Your Stall Does the squeaking wheel get the grease, or will the meek inherit the earth? Agents have the wheel at five to one

Influences: Often heard, seldom seen: slide masters Don Was and Bob Clearmountain make beautiful music without touching an instrument

On The Record Mumford & Sons reach for the heavens with Babel, but can they go the distance? The Blasters, the Avengers and the Zombies create Widespread Panic; Little Freddie King, Kaki King and Bnois King rule; Del and Dawg, Jimmy Herring, Grant Peeples, John Lee Hooker, Jr. and Heart, all alive with music. Tim O’Brien & Darrell Scott prove you can’t always poke fun at names

Re:Issues Guitarists all know him, and so should we mortals: Tommy Bolin of the James Gang and Deep Purple. On the lighter but higher-profile side, Chubby Checker, Electric Prunes and the Grateful Dead, Vol. 30, but who’s counting?

What’d I Say Blues or jazz guitar, rock guitar or southern rock guitar, classical and fusion guitar, Jim Hynes points with all five fingers. Wait! Six fingers!

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning What made the Jackson 5 so special? John Kuroski drops 32 rare pearls of wisdom

Also Appearing The stars align for Starry Night Festival, and for Lou Pallo, who led a starstudded tribute to longtime bandmate Les Paul. Sixto Rodriguez swept onto the Highline for his first gig in 40 years

Collecting Ten supergroups and their albums. Sometimes their only album

Get to Know: 20 directors who made the leap from MTV to the multiplex

This Month’s Trivia