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I told myself I wasn’t going to do a decades album list. I mean how can you really rank all your favorite albums over a period of ten years that isn’t even completed yet? Over the last couple of months though, I found myself slowly beginning to compile a list of [...]

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While, I’m getting prepped up for Pygmalion Fest this weekend here’s a couple new tracks for you to chew on from two artists who couldn’t be more different.  First one is from everyone’s favorite indie rock hottie / Kanye West song-tester (not to mention extremely talented singer/songwriter/bandleader), Jenny Lewis and it’s the title track from her [...]

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Headlights have changed a lot since I last wrote about them. While their last album, Kill Them With Kindness, fit pretty nicely into the shoegaze-pop category, their new album, released today on Polyvinyl, is huge step in a different direction for the band (who are sort of like local heroes from where I [...]

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Back when compact discs were all the rage, if you didn’t care for the album art, it really didn’t matter. You probably just took it out of it’s cover and threw it in a giant CD Holder or used a CD-R that your friend burnt for you (probably with the incorrect tracklisting) anyway. In [...]

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With so many great bands releasing albums this year it’s especially nice to have an artist who can drag me away from the Okkervil Rivers, Sunset Rubdowns, and Go! Teams of this world and completely surprise me with something fresh and fantastic. Aaron Schroeder has done just that with his sophomore album Black [...]

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I don’t know about the rest of you, but where I’m from Guitar Hero is absolutely massive. The second edition came out last week and everyone on my dorm floor has been playing it nonstop. If you’ve never played before, I’m not going to go into the details, but basically you pick up a [...]

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I appreciate when artists use nontraditional sounds/instruments in music. Trumpets are used everywhere now and accordions and banjos have been growing steadily with popularity but while those instruments are all good, why hasn’t there been a bagpipe revival yet? I made a post about the world needing more bagpipes last year and nothing seemed [...]

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Today I participated in Hump Day with Jax at Rock Insider and chose a few songs that I enjoy rocking out to in my car (a picture of what my car looks like is above). Here’s the songs I chose, but make sure to go the site and download them and read my descriptions [...]

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