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It speaks to the confidence of a band when the name of one of their first singles is “Hitten”, a title that translates to
It was pretty startling to me that, after listening to only one track from The Happy Hollows, I was able to draw comparisons to
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Ambition can play an interesting role in an artist’s production of their own music, especially during a dramatic period of stylistic transition. It sounds
One of my favorite YouTube clips is of legendary funk bassist Bootsy Collins laying down a slick live bass solo in 1978 with Parliament-Funkadelic,
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Robert Moore’s 1976 film, “Murder by Death”, was a memorable spoof on “whodunit” mystery fares. Featuring an all-star cast (Truman Capote, Alec Guinness, Peter