It’s no secret that I love Cornershop. Yeah, I say I’m a big fan of a lot of bands, and it’s always true, but this is special. Like on equal footing with how I feel about the Beatles. One of those rare, one-in-a-million bands whose music you love so much it almost makes you feel [...]
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Update: I’m bumping up this post from last week, which was just a little nod to a group I’ve loved for as long as I can remember, in tribute to Mary Travers, who died yesterday at the age of 72. The New York Times has a very nice obituary here and there’s not much I [...]
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I was messing around in iTunes and when I mess around in iTunes without a purpose there are a few songs I end up playing. “React” is one of them. Which then sent me to YouTube to dig up some EPMD videos. As a result of my excursions you get the video of the EPMD [...]
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The Bean may have just vomited in her mouth a little bit. Klaus Meine may be insanely short. The outfits the band wore 20 years ago look out of place anywhere outside the Blue Oyster Bar (Google it). I care not. If you were in your late teens or early twenties in 1991, then you [...]
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Cornershop is one my most beloved bands and it’s been far too long since we last heard from them. In honor of their first full-length album in seven (7!) years (Judy Sucks A Lemon For Breakfast, out on July 27th), have yourself a listen to my very favorite Cornershop jam, “Topknot”. Like most Cornershop releases, [...]
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