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Camper Van Beethoven - La Costa Perdita

- Source: Uncut.co.uk

When Camper Van Beethoven oozed out of California's post-punk scene circa mid-1980s, they confronted witnesses with a set of confounding contradictions: a novelty band, ostensiblyTake the Skinheads Bowling" was the hit—counter-intuitively sporting a stunning breadth of musical range and ability; a fiercely DIY aggregation, yet explicitly cosmopolitan, conversant with everything from Balkan balladry to Jamaican ska; a hard-rock behemoth, yet leaning more on violin than electric guitar as lead instrument.

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David Lowery Q&A: On Spotify Rates and His Letter to NPR's Emily White

- Source: Spinner

Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker frontman David Lowery caught a lot of flack last summer when he wrote an open letter to NPR intern Emily White, regarding her piece called " I Never Owned Any Music To Begin With." The young writer admitted to only having bought about 15 CDs in her lifetime, despite having over 11,000 songs in her iTunes library.

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Camper Van Beethoven: La Costa Perdida

- Source: Pitchfork Media

Before David Lowery was known as a leading crusader for musicians' rights against the evils of thieving NPR interns , and/or the frontman of fairly popular 90s alt-rock band Cracker, he was the most famous member of semi-famous, 80s indie band Camper Van Beethoven.

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David Lowery speaks out against music piracy

- Source: Death + Taxes

On June 16, NPR published an article by a 20 year-old intern concerning her generation's aversion to paying for music in favor of a larger Spotify-esque system where all artists' music can be available for listening that will pay based on play counts.

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Must-Have 2011: DAVID LOWERY

- Source: Ryan's Smashing Life

Having recently seen Lowery perform with both Cracker and Camper on tour and hearing a party track like, " Baby, All Those Girls Meant Nothing To Me ," it's difficult for me to think of Lowery as a 50 year old.

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Camper Van Beethoven: January 14, 2011 Highline Ballroom - Flac and MP3 Downloads + Streaming Song

- Source: NYC Taper

“Like an old testament prophet, or a Morman elder, or (all right, what do I know about it?) like that guy on Big Love, our favorite openly practicing musical polygamist David Lowery brought both of his bands to NYC for back to back performances at the Highline Ballroom on January 14. I’ve been reading the Keith Richards book, which has me all in a lather for rock and roll tell-all, so I couldn’t help but wonder what the dynamic on the bus is. One big happy family? Hmm. Maybe, but the mind is inevitably drawn to the sordid. Is it Cracker in the front, wearing their greater commercial success like a warm parka, loud and cheerful game of 20 questions, Camper Van Beethoven in the back, sullen and pissy, answering in monosyllables? Or is it CVB the first and truest love, despite Cracker’s headline position on the bill, serenely confident of favor, irritatingly aloof in the face of drunken, bitter Cracker histrionics? I guess we’ll have to wait for the Immergluck book to find out. In the meantime, I marvel at what an absolute delight this pair of shows proved to be. I liked so many things about them I hardly know where to begin. I should say that I was a fan back in the nineties but I’d completely lost touch with this music: all I knew is that I used to like it. As often as not, things you used to love come back to embarrass you (just give me a second to queue up this episode of Lost in Space on Hulu . . . OK, I’m back now), and so I was gratified and relieved to find that in this case my taste was vindicated by strong performances of a jaw droppingly rich musical smorgasbord. It’s a brilliant format, playing consecutively as CVB and Cracker, and it gives the concert goer some real insights into the different approaches taken by these two successful projects. I found myself about to use the word “evolution” back there, but that isn’t it: CVB didn’t evolve into Cracker anymore than the Beatles evolved into Wings. Two bands. Some similarities. Some differences. Both draw

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Popdose Listmania: Top 50 Guitarists (20-11)

- Source: Pop Dose

Never mind the at-times juvenile humor ("Pearl Necklace" and "Tube Snake Boogie") and outright dumb 1980s synth-mix ZZ Top records, the band was a great blues-rock power trio up to 1979′s Deguello , arguably its finest hour (we'll entertain counterpoints involving Eliminator ).

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Man Date: Cracker at Musica

- Source: Addicted to Vinyl

Ain't it funny how I was reminiscing about my last man date with the Cleveland Bachelor earlier this morning (the last one that really mattered, anyway), and in the middle of the day, the man date schedulers (whoever those dudes are) sent me an email to let me know that our next scheduled man date has been confirmed.

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Reverend Horton Heat Covers Bill Haley in New York

- Source: Spinner

Back in the early '90s, when alt-rock still smelled like teen profits to trend-spotting record execs, Cracker and the Reverend Horton Heat were two of the many guitar bands to capitalize on the post- Nirvana gold rush and score major-label deals.

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