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It’s a little-known fact that the more mainstream coverage you consume, the more you realize that other people have abysmal taste in music. Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, and Spin conspired this year in an attempt to convince the public that Olivia…
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When “Now and Then” dropped earlier this month, the world reacted as if an additional page of The King James Version, The Bhagavad Gita, or another sacred text had been uncovered after years of pining for a higher truth. I…
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Self-awareness is one of the most important qualities an artist can have, and Don Dokken has it in abundance. Rather than kowtow to the social media hive calling for him to hang up his rock ‘n’ roll shoes, he embraced…
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Foghat are arguably the greatest southern rock band to not actually emerge from below the Mason-Dixon Line. They had the look, the sound, and Rod Price’s prodigious use of electric slide guitar to solidify their place on the scene alongside…
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Because it’s a holiday, I’ve given you six albums to check out instead of the usual three. Enjoy. Rolling Stones – “Hackney Diamonds” “Produced by Andrew Watt” has become one of the most off-putting phrases in the English language. Despite…
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When Utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham introduced the concept of The Panopticon in 1785, he likely didn’t foresee anyone re-purposing his idea 238 years later within the confines of a hockey arena. After all, no one outside of academia and the…
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What I’ve always admired about Dave Pirner is his humble approach to success. Soul Asylum was a fixture on MTV thanks to the triple-platinum squall of 1992’s “Grave Dancers Union” and they even played the inauguration of President Bill Clinton…
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While becoming a teenager in the spring of 2001 was both a blessing and a curse for an introvert like me, gaining 24-hour access to HBO Comedy for the first time ever made the ensuing awkwardness and crises of confidence…
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If you took the fearlessness of Kathleen Hanna and crossed it with the six string ferocity of Tony Iommi, you would get singer/guitarist Marissa Paternoster. Her voice is enormous and she attacks her G&L S-500 on stage as if every…
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I wasn’t alive in 1985, but listening to Eric Bazilian describe how crazy things became for The Hooters following the release of “Nervous Night” made me wish that I had been. They sold two million copies in the United States…
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