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5 New Songs and Albums You Must Hear
The sun is out in Seattle and everybody needs driving music. There is nothing like exciting new records to thrill the soul and I have 5 songs/albums that you should check out. “Song for
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Classic Album: “World Gone Wrong” (1993) by Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan is, at the very least, one of the most powerful and prolific songwriters of the modern era, but he is every bit as powerful as an interpreter of songs. Pete Seeger called
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: “Push the Sky Away” (2013)
The new Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds album is a somewhat strange, subdued affair. To say it is a departure from the garage-grime of the last Bad Seeds album, Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! and
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“Pedestrian Verse” by Frightened Rabbit: The Swell of the Sweet Self-Loathing
Frightened Rabbit have accompanied me through some difficult times. If you know the band and the way they combine anthemic, huge songs with self-shaming, fatalistic lyrics than you would understand that they are good
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Solange Brings us Back to Pop’s Glory Days
I love hip-hop, soul and R&B music. I always have. D’Angelo’s Voodoo masterpiece, Grand Master Flash’s “The Message”, Sam Cooke singing “A Change is Gonna Come” or even an early Cypress Hill track like “How I
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Bob Dylan Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere: “Tempest” is a Triumph
50 years of recording. 35 albums. New schools created and abandoned, with followers in every wake; new points of view and styles embraced and discarded and rearranged; ups and downs in inspiration and reception,
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Apocalypse in Art and “Will the Soft Curse Plague On?” by Wizards of Time (2012)
Wizards of Time have crafted a unique, powerful musical experience with Hidden Shoal’s 2012 release Will The Soft Cure Plague On? Here is apocalyptic concept record through shimmering sounds. Andrew Levi Hiller and company have
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Swans: “The Seer” (2012) A Running Commentary
I wrote this while giving my first few listens to the new Swans record. My desire is to express an immediate and spontaneous response to some truly visceral music. LUNACY: ”Speak the name…lunacy!” And
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Classic Album: Songs from the Capeman (1997) Paul Simon
First of all, in case you’re wondering why I’m reviewing an album that’s been out for well over a decade it’s because I feel it has been unfairly overlooked and I want to do
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Remembering “The Bends” (1995) by Radiohead
There are many explanations I could offer as to why Radiohead’s The Bends meant so much to me as I listened to it over and over again during my junior year of high school.
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