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Mike Hanford @ City Winery Haymarket, Boston, MA [01-10-25]
LIVE MUSIC

It’s my first week back at work since the break and my hatred for it has been restoked. And now it’s Friday and there’s not much to do in Boston because it’s been such an infuriatingly cold week. Do I even want to leave the house? To go see Mike Hanford perform...

Tuesday, 14 January 2025
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Vinyl Vlog 662
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A deeper look at the grooves pressed into the Here Comes Our Wave LP by The Black Pacific. Now six years after the release of Never Gonna Die, it really doesn’t seem like Pennywise plans on putting out a new album anytime soon – which is a terrible shame. Since...

Saturday, 11 January 2025
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Vinyl Vlog 661
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X Smoke & Fiction (Fat Possum Records)Smoke & Fiction was one of the most important records of 2024. How? Let me count the ways. For one it was, just plainly on the surface, a record that did many things and did them well. Compared to both rock and punk music...

Thursday, 09 January 2025
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I Wanna Be Literated #276
BOOKS

Empowered: Volume 12by Adam Warren Adam Warren is one of the true unsung heroes of comic-dom. I’ll spare you the cliché of the “something about his work truly spoke to me as a teen” bit when I first started reading him, and instead I’ll just say that his...

Sunday, 05 January 2025
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Ground Control Magazine’s Year in Review 2024
FEATURES

Did you see those other “best of” lists? Cringe-worthy, right? They either missed the mark entirely, or picked obvious boring choices, or just simply have shit taste. Not here, though. We might not have listened to EVERYTHING this year, but we listened to a lot,...

Wednesday, 25 December 2024
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Vinyl Vlog 660
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The Hilken Mancini Band I wasn’t expecting to have drinks with Hilken Mancini two days before Thanksgiving, but there we were. I’m not name-dropping, it happens. We were there because she insisted on meeting me in person to give me a copy of her excellent new...

Friday, 13 December 2024
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Vinyl Vlog 659
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A deeper look at the grooves pressed into Bambies’ Snotty Angels LP. Rare is the band that is capable of taking a very well-established sound, tweaking it ever-so-slightly and landing on something that is instantly rewarding and gratifying for those who hear it,...

Thursday, 12 December 2024
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SPOTLIGHT: Slipping Away
FEATURES

WHO: Tim Heidecker WHAT: Slipping Away WHY: Sure, you don’t start your album by telling your listener to lower their expectations, and Slipping Away does have some half-cooked ideas at the beginning, but it ends with a rich, compelling and beautiful set of songs that...

Monday, 09 December 2024
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TV PArty Tonight! #154
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Watchmen: Chapter 1 Sure, Alan Moore is controversial but he’s also right most of the time. Even the worst Alan Moore work is kind of good, when you think about it. Can you blame him for wanting to have SOME sort of ownership over his comics? He only turned against...

Wednesday, 04 December 2024
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Vinyl Vlog 658
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A deeper look at the grooves pressed into the Music That Humans Can Play LP by Autogramm. That Autogramm has so meticulously presented themselves as being perched on New Wave’s pinnacle of power and influence now – about forty years after that form peaked –...

Wednesday, 27 November 2024
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Paint it Black Live @ The Sinclair, Cambridge, MA [11-24-24]
LIVE MUSIC

How long has it been since I’ve seen Paint it Black? I feel like when I lived in Harrisburg, I saw them all the time. Is it because they used to be more active? Maybe being so Philly-adjacent facilitated the whole thing? I haven’t stopped listening to Paint it...

Monday, 25 November 2024
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