Ryan Adams and Mandy Moore are no longer an item. Adams blames media intrusion for the breakup. Still, that didn’t stop him issuing a press release about the couple’s split. Mandy is one of those genuinely sweet angelic people you wish to meet your whole life. I am grateful for our friendship and how it [...]

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It’s all about the hair. Regular readers of Musictoob will know Adams’ penchant for dying his hair online, but until now the reason remained unclear. A cursory look at this photo confirms he wants long auburn tresses like his new squeeze, Mandy Moore. When she was a dirty blonde, so was he. Identity crisis!
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Ryan Adams new dye job - which he wrote about extensively on his now defunkt blog and has been covered in Musictoob - makes him looks like a berk, but it doesn’t seem to have hit his ability to hook up. It seems the rumours of a relationship between the fun-loving inide rocker and the [...]

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First it was blonde but now it is blue. Ryan Adams writes: “My hair looked like this until the dye really set and now it’s fucking weird electric blue.” Why is anyone’s guess. You could look at his blog but it “has been hijacked for three weeks.“

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Are all musicians - even the good ones - vain attention junkies who’ll do anything to get some love from total strangers they’ll never meet? Is that what drives Aerosmith, Bruce Springsteen and even Paul McCartney to still court public opinion? Are all our music heroes desparate saddoes with a hole where their heart should [...]

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By the late 70s, country rock and its Southern rock outgrowth had been battered to the ground, virtually killed off by the challenges of disco, glam rock, punk, new wave and heavy metal. But new spins on the sound of country and rock continued to emerge. In the mid-80s, a new bunch of groups in [...]

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Ryan Adams - who Musictoob once met doing something illegal in a toilet in Manhattan’s 7B bar - has confirmed he will join Oasis on their upcoming US tour. Those tour 2008 dates are:
Seattle, WA WaMu Theater (August 26)
Vancouver, BC GM Place (27)
Edmonton, AB Rexall Place (29)
Calgary, AB Pengrowth Saddledome (30)
Winnipeg, MT MTS Center (September [...]

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