Archive for May, 2013
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Evan Duby
Evan Duby grew up on the East Coast, being raised in New York, moving to Boston, and now residing in a shore town in Connecticut. Duby’s musical influences remain fairly typical for someone of the indie folk genre, rangin...
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Hot Snakes… live, not on a plane
Live albums tend to represent a band’s energy very well and this one is no different. Hot Snakes have already called it quits but a new live album, Thunder Down Under has been released. After being formed in 1999 by John ...
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Actors Make Decent Music? (2 of 3): Vincent Gallo
Unlike many actors who choose to play with the music industry after eventual acting success, music was Vincent Gallo‘s first love. He is most well-known for his lead roles in controversially cult films, such as the engagi...
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Squarepusher mixes it up
Squarepusher is the alias for Thomas Jenkinson, an English musician who uses nothing more than a bass guitar, samples, and a drum machine to create his music. As simple as that may sound, Squarepusher’s sound is extremely...
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Actors Make Decent Music? (1 of 3): Crispin Glover
Hey McFly! Leave it to one of the quirkiest actors to make some of the strangest music you’d ever hear from an accomplished actor. Crispin Glover‘s most notable acting roles have been as an oddball, from Back To The...
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Electronics on Thursdays
Happy Thursday. Summer is (sadly) almost over, but at least football season is nearing. So, here are some tracks of the electronic/synth element to cheer you up. They’re fun. ——————R...
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The Isles
I wonder how far a review of The Isles can go without mentioning The Smiths… not very far at all, it seems. The comparison makes its point though, as vocalist Andrew Geller has obvious similarities to the breezy and melan...
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Lemon tastes sweet, not sour
Lemon is a New York-based collaborative consisting of singer/songwriter Roger Smith and multi-instrumentalist Thor Madsen. Smith and Madsen are heavily influenced by a variety of genres, but their passion for 70s R&B is pa...
