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David Bowie’s “The Next Day” Is A Gut Wrenching, Beautiful Masterpiece
David Bowie’s new CD “The Next Day” is a gut wrenching, beautiful masterpiece. Recorded in secret over the past two years with producer Tony Visconti, the effort could have gone in just a few
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Why Music Fans Are Respecting Their Elders In 2013
Music fans, more and more, are respecting their elders in the search for something a little…truthier. Often, when looking at current music trends, we forget to look at the whole picture, and end up
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Get Some Rock n’ Roll Spirit From The fundaMentals
With a promotional phrase “the world’s oldest living garage band”, The fundaMentals immediately caught my interest. I don’t know for certain if this claim could possibly be verified by an outside authority such as
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Puscifer gets my Song of the Year and Album of the Year
In my opinion, Puscifer‘s “Conditions of My Parole” was the best album of 2011, with Tom Waits and Charles Bradley being extremely close. Puscifer gets the edge because of how absolutely profound the release
Read More »Take Cover! The Bikini Robot Army Is Upon Us!
It’s always a good thing when artists are unafraid to get weird, don’t you think? Bikini Robot Armyis the quirky and strange self-produced rock/funk/pop/motown/experimental creation of solo artist Val Broeksmit. Like Beck, the Gorillaz and Tom
Read More »Connecticut rapper Skobie Won unites hip hop and electronica with “Burn”
Combining eccentric hip hop, electro music, glitch hop and a healthy punk attitude, Connecticut rapper Skobie Won has been releasing some vicious material as of late. It’s great to hear someone doing something new
Read More »Exclusive Interview and Feature with Steve Kouba – “Fake It ‘Til You Make It”
Steve Kouba is a strange cat to be sure, but aren’t the strange ones the best when it comes to music and art? This Chicago musician/singer songwriter has carved a unique niche for himself
Read More »Chords of Truth – a brilliant lyricist and songwriter
Today I received a unique music submission from the acoustic solo project called Chords of Truth. I was steered towards a particular track until I began perusing the artist’s website and found something much
Read More »Rock n Roll Storm’s A Comin – A Hideous Blue Inspires
“Nothing’s what you bargained for. Give it up like a cheap whore.” That sums it up, doesn’t it? There is a positive message in there if you look for it. Your plan. Give it
Read More »The RainDoggs – Tom Waits Meets Snoop Dogg To Jam
The RainDoggs. Very clever name. Tom Waits (who himself released a stellar album “Bad As Me“) once crooned “For I am a rain dog, too” on his 1985 classic album “Rain Dogs”.
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