Until recently, Ramos focused on the rock world, whether fronting rock bands or singing backup on rock records.
And few bands in recent years have experienced as much source material when it comes to personal turmoil: The tragic death of a former band member and a current member's hospitalization after kidney failure helped inspire the band's 2007 album Asleep at Heaven's Gate, one of the decade's most profoundly sad and moving rock records.
They describe an emphasis on the first lady's long-lost Little Rock billing records, which had just been discovered a few days prior to her grand jury appearance.
The most important items in each of these boy-caves were the ever-present turntable and stacks of rock and roll records.
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They seemed to have stepped out of a Mickey Spillane novel as much as indie-rock, but on records they made after their respective bands dissolved, both men toned down both their pose and their music.
Electronica rules at more Design District and Downtown clubs, lovely jazz spots are not hard to find, and a cosy but strong indie-rock scene centres around Sweat Records (5505 NE Second Ave) and Churchill's (5501 NE Second Avenue).
The Black Keys rock band is signed to Nonesuch Records, a label owned by Warner Music Group.
"Russian rock songwriting at its best has been very specific to Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet culture, " said Peter Varshavsky, who heads the San Francisco-based label Porto Franco Records and has represented Russian rock bands.
Last December's Christie's auction in Los Angeles featured one lot that seemed irresistible: a poster for a film of a concert by Blue Oyster Cult and Black Sabbath, two out-of-work heavy-metal rock bands that still stubbornly sell old records to adoring fans.
Liturgy, whose members live in Brooklyn, records for the respected indie-rock label Thrill Jockey, which made its name in the mid-nineties releasing avant-garde but civilized rock.
"We get a lot of younger kids that come in here and buy the older records, get a lot of classic rock and stuff, " he said.
The yield on a 10-year Treasury note, while not setting records like the 2-year, is still a rock-bottom 2.95%.
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Warner's sales have also been buoyed by its acquisition last year of prominent independent label Rykodisc and its purchase last January of Roadrunner Records, the home of platinum-selling hard-rock band Nickelback, Wilson said.
The building was once Chess Records, the seminal electric blues label that paved the way for rock 'n' roll.
This is the home of the Patent Records Office, 4, 600 square meters of storage space hewn out of solid rock, the last repository of America's intellectual property.
American blues has held a fascination for British rock bands ever since Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Eric Clapton heard their first Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf records.
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