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Plato wrote that “our need will be the real creator” in 375 BC, which was later loosely translated to mean “The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention” by Benjamin Jowett in 1892. For Los Angeles…
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Big Big Train formed in Bournemouth, Dorset, England in 1990, but 2024 marks the first time they’ll ever play on American soil. Anchored by founder Gregory Spawton, the band persevered following the tragic passing of longtime vocalist David Longdon in…
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Snopes.com touts itself as “the definitive Internet reference source for researching urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation,” but, if the people behind the curtain had any real stones, they would’ve squashed the victimization narrative that emerged in the wake…
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The University at Buffalo has a knack for booking artists whose careers are trending upward at the exact moment they set foot on campus. The Police in 1980, Beastie Boys in 1987, Nirvana in 1993, Kendrick Lamar in 2013 etc.…
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When Saxon released their 24th studio album, “Hell, Fire And Damnation,” on Jan. 19, social media was ablaze with metal swamis contemplating how the collection stacked up against the rest of the catalog. Despite the fact that many records require…
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“In capitalist society, the degree of success is measured by the amount of wealth and possessions. Following this logic, the middle class is materially “wealthy,” content with its status, and fearful of poverty enough to oppose any kind of radical…
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Four studio albums in three years is all we got from Cream before the tension between Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker became insurmountable. From 1966 to 1968, they, along with Eric Clapton, rode a wave of creative combustibility to become…
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If the guys behind Texas Scratch were a pop trio, the 14-year gap between when they recorded and when their album was finally freed from corporate limbo would’ve been a death knell for all involved. Trends are fickle and so…
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“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.” – George Orwell George Orwell didn’t have cinema on the brain when he coined the above…
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I’ve spent the past few months trying to pin down what exactly the Buffalo “sound” is and I remain no closer to a conclusion today than I was at the beginning. While locales such as Seattle, New Orleans, and Memphis…
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