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Vinyl Vlog 657
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A deeper look at the grooves pressed into the I Planted, Apollos Watered, But God Kept Making It Grow LP by the crushedvelvets. Not every reader of this review will have experienced any kind of skepticism at the current health and validity of rock music, but they can...

Thursday, 31 October 2024
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AVANT GARDE A CLUE – Experimental Music Festival – Rochester, NY October 7 – 13
LIVE MUSIC

I had an MRI on my knee this week. If you’ve never had one, it is a very noisy procedure. Clicks and raps and something that sounds like a muffled jackhammer assault your ears for fifteen to twenty minutes or more, while medical technologists create an image of your...

Tuesday, 29 October 2024
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Vinyl Vlog 656
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A deeper look at the grooves pressed into Scott Collins’ Purple Pain LP. There aren’t many artists making music right now who are capable of introducing themselves as clearly having both their heart on their sleeve as well as a chip clearly on their...

Friday, 25 October 2024
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OSEES live @ The Royale, BOSTON, MA [10-23-24]
LIVE MUSIC

OSEES have no right being as good as they are. They’re simply remarkable. They put out an album a year (sometimes more). There are certainly hits and misses among them, but I’d gladly play the “worst” OSEES album instead of 99% of music that gets put out...

Thursday, 24 October 2024
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Vinyl Vlog 655
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A deeper look at the grooves pressed into Bass Drum Of Death’s “Live… And Let Die” LP. Even on first glance at the cover of “Live… And Let Die“, I began to get excited. The cover of the album reminded me of so many other live albums...

Tuesday, 22 October 2024
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Billy Bragg live @ Chevalier Theatre, Medford, MA [10-14-24]
LIVE MUSIC

How do you even define Billy Bragg’s music anymore? Nowadays it almost sounds like easy listening, but with a leftist political leaning. The man has always worn his heart on his sleeve and although his political songs can seem a little too on the nose and simplistic,...

Tuesday, 15 October 2024
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TV Party Tonight! #152
DVD/Blu-Ray

Civil War The only thing better than Civil War is the press tour Kirsten Dunst did for it. Not that anything she said was controversial, but because she came across as a cool-headed actress with perspective and confidence. She spoke out against genocide (wow!),...

Friday, 11 October 2024
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Vinyl Vlog 654
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Dog Party Dangerous Good things come to those who wait, and for me, that’s the new Dog Party record “Dangerous.” Listening to Dog Party brought back some sweet memories from my college days. Days when I first starting getting into the Ramones. I had...

Monday, 07 October 2024
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SPOTLIGHT: Smoke & Fiction
FEATURES

WHO: X WHAT: Smoke & Fiction WHY: Let’s round up the week with more X, shall we? It’s easy to point at bands that are still going and overstaying their welcome, but X certainly isn’t that. On Smoke & Fiction, the band shows they can still create inspiring...

Friday, 04 October 2024
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