Shellac – At Action Park (1994) Despite the advanced stages of tinnitus, you’ll never not hear an opportunity to present a stern-yet-blasé defense of pocket protectors. * * *…
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Thin Lizzy – Black Rose (1979) An Irish wedding and an American funeral form simultaneously from the same bar fight. * * * * * Thin Lizzy –…
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Träden – Träden (2018) Like nougat, but psychedelic and grown naturally in the marrow of a tree. * * * * * Accept – Restless & Wild (1982)…
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Molly Drake – Molly Drake (1950’s / 2013) The player piano in your great grandmother’s parlor waits until nobody else is around to tell you the politest ways to carry…
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When I was in high school, a group of my classmates called me “Gay Rob” to distinguish from the other guy in my class who shared my first and last…
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Death – The Sound Of Perseverance (1998) A race between a bunch of mutants to see who can be the first to finish their extremely detailed book about DIY surgery.…
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Steely Dan – Katy Lied (1975) That scene in Annie Hall where Woody Allen sneezes on the pile of blow, but there’s so much blow that the only real problem…
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Cynic – Traced In Air (2008) Having “did sonny rollins wear a porkpie hat” and “how to sweep pick” in your recent Google history. Steely Dan – Two Against Nature…
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Don Caballero – Don Caballero 2 (1995) A tornado starts throwing hot chocolate at another tornado while screaming, “YOU DON’T EVEN LIKE JAZZ!” Baroness – First and Second (2004/2005) A…
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“Pop music is so shallow” said the singer-songwriter Caroline Rose briefly after finishing college. While ultimately revoking her comment that wrote out an entire genre of music, the attitude she…
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The pairing between these two individuals feels particularly apt, even necessary. In a world where things move with an undue quickness, they take their time. Akin to different sides of…
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As a big a hip-hop fan, I often find myself explaining the genre to my husband who is Colombian. Hip-hop didn’t really resonate with his friends and family in the…
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With almost every class I teach, I take an informal poll: first, who is your favorite musician? I would say at least 70% of my students can answer that. When…
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When bands propel they usually turn to the mainstream as a way out of their hazardous, mundane lives. Money is a factor, the pretty penny such a shining light. In…
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