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Dryw Keltz
Being a Guided By Voices/Robert Pollard fan is the ultimate in the wheat/chaff dilemma. Whilst one is often confronted with some of the most undeniably brilliant nuggets stemming from what Pollard has lovingly declared “The Four P’s” (pop, punk, prog, and psych,) his prolific songwriting output, coupled with his equally prolific release schedule, have combined [...]  Outside Our Gates by Liz DurrettBy
Hilty Hazzard
If Cat Power and Beth Orton could blend together into one artist- surely that singer/songwriter would be Liz Durrett. Try as I did, though, comparisons couldn’t be avoided. But bear with me! Comparison and similarity aren’t always bad things.  Brass Trax Essentials: Caetano Veloso (1971)By
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Here’s the short version. Caetano Veloso (Caetano if you’re nasty) masterminded Tropicalia, the stridently popular political and cultural movement in the late 1960s. North Americans best remember Tropicalia for its sound. Caetano, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, and Os Mutantes developed an iconoclastic language for Brazilian popular music. They scandalized both the liberal musical intelligentsia and [...]  JamsBio Heads to Austin City Limits FestivalBy
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The JamsBio Editorial Team is hitting the road, making a b-line down I-10 to US-71 and into the capital of the Lone Star State. Our charge? To bring you the best of the 8 stages and 130 bands that converge on Austin for 3 days every September for one of the nation’s best music [...]  Recap of the 9th Annual Wormtown Music FestivalBy
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This was my first “real” music festival, at least the kind where the attendees camp out all weekend with no showers, no stores nearby, nothing but the music stages and tents that surround you.  Not Animal by Margot and the Nuclear So & So’sBy
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On Not Animal, Margot comes off at times to be a derivative, run-of-the-mill group wearing their influences on their sleeves and at other times they seem to be working out on the frontier of an identity all their own.  Freaks & Geeks: Highlights, Pt. 2By
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Do you know what time it is cult fans? Yes, it’s the second installment of prized highlights from the defunct but not forgotten television masterpiece, Freaks & Geeks. It makes me wonder if the show’s creator, Paul Feig, realized just how similar his series was to an actual high school student looking for acceptance [...] |
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