About a year and a half ago I posted LANY's first mega hit single "ILYSB" (I Love You So Bad) and info on how they started this band as an incognito Soundcloud account, and actually thought they were getting catfished when some rando UK labels came a'knockin...
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JONES is a singer whose name, btw, is in all caps, similar to receiving a text from your grandma, or an email from your aged boss - "If it's not in ALL CAPS, then how will you know I'm yelling?!" The producer of this lovely...
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Throwback Thursdays...
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"Boy band" no longer, this NYC foursome, Episode, have set out on the humbling quest of a full-fledged makeover, a reinvention of themselves. The desire to shake off their former selves in to something a tad more "palatable" was strong enough that it appears they...
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So PUP is a pretty cool band from Toronto. The four childhood friends originally named their band Topanga - yes, like THAT Topanga. They named their band after Boy Meets World...
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Did you know where "jet black" comes from? I sure didn't. "Jet" is a dense black coal that takes a high polish and is used for jewelry. The more you know, huh? Also, black cats weren't always associated with bad luck and/or witchery until the...
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Typified in the early 90s by the blurring of component musical parts, typically guitar distortion, feedback and obscured vocals, the term "shoegaze" was coined by the British music press to ridicule the stage presence of artists who stood still during live performances, detached, introspective, and...
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The cold and the clouds are all gone in the Northeast. Now we can prepare for summer by queueing up some happy country tunes. I've done you a solid and updated my Country SWAG playlist on Spotify (click there to get it) with the newest and summeriest...
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There isn't much to know about the 90's nodding, Goo alluding, Yuck guitaring, semi-shoegazing trio Teenage Wrist (that's basically ALL of the things to describe them:-/). A collaborative side project of some dudes from Colorado who full-time other bands, Teenage Wrist formed up in 2015...
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I am sucker for sweet album art (an under-appreciated art form!), and Sturgill Simpson brings the fire with his fabulous new album (similar to C!NCC!'s Something for Nothing, except way better), and my Album of the Week and Month, A Sailor's Guide To Earth. If you don't know,...
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