Do you remember The Soup Dragons? If you’re from the UK and / or of a certain age (the certain age that means you actually remember buying albums on cassette), you probably do. If not, this band probably passed you by completely. Which would be a shame because, while Hotwired isn’t necessarily one of the [...]
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For many, many years, I’ve claimed that Pearl Jam’s Ten was my first album purchase but it recently occurred to me – holy crap! – have I been lying about that all this time?! Not that my real #1, now that I see my mistake, isn’t just as cool. My deception was accidental, I assure [...]
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Hey, Hospital Bombers – where are you? I’ve never written about the Hospital Bombers before which is stupid, because they’re one of my very favorite bands. I should’ve mentioned them way back in 2008-ish when they released their debut album, Footnotes – it was in the top 3 albums of the year on that list [...]
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I’m both shocked and dismayed to realize that I’ve yet to post about one of my very favorite – top 5, without a doubt – releases from last year. Cast Spells’ “Bright Works And Batons” EP came out last August and, although I immediately liked it – mostly because of David Davison’s captivating voice – [...]
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A few weeks ago, Bean wrote a very cool post that linked The Raveonettes to Twin Peaks. I never really made a connection between a piece of music and a seemingly unrelated TV show that way until I heard “Revival”. I’m still sad that Carnivale, the HBO show set during the Great Depression which was [...]
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