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Album Review: Red Hot Chili Peppers – I’m With You
The phrase “I’m with you” inspires dedication, perseverance, and togetherness, making it rather fitting for the Red Hot Chili Pepper’s 10th studio album. For everything that’s happened in the five...
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“Well, Whatever, Nevermind”: Nirvana’s Nevermind, 20 Years Later
I know there is absolutely nothing that screams amateur music blogger/critic/journalist/whatever more than writing a reflection on Nevermind, but for the album’s 20th anniversary, just indulge me this...
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Album Reivew: Angels & Airwaves – Love (part 2)
Goddammit, Tom. I’ve always thought Angels & Airwaves could be a really cool band. Spacey, U2 style rock but with more energy and hooks than most put into it? Sounds like an absolute blast. And, to...
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Feedback: Hole – Live Through This
So, Courtney Love. It’s hard to write about Love in 2012 and sincerely put the music first. While she’s the frontwoman/writer/owner of the influential alt. rock band Hole, a search for “Courtney Love”...
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New Music: Arc & Stones – Arc & Stones (EP)
One of the favorite topics of music journalists/bloggers is the tired “rock is dead” or “radio rock is dead” thinkpiece that bemoans a lack of fresh and exciting rock music. New alternative rock in...
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Feedback: +44 – When Your Heart Stops Beating
With this month being the one year anniversary of Feedbacks, and this being the tenth edition of the feature, I thought I’d revisit where this feature started. Sort of. The first Feedback looked at...
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New Music: Grown Up Avenger Stuff – Sparkleton
A friend of mine created a music nerd-friendly car game: find a phrase that would make a good name for a rock band, and then describe what that band would sound like. During our first outing, we...
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Rage With Age: A (Brief) Nine Inch Nails Retrospective
One of my favorite aspects of an artist releasing a new album is refamiliarizing myself with their work while I’m waiting for the new one to come out. It’s a pretty universal fan experience; checking...
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Album Review: Nine Inch Nails – Hesitation Marks
I’m sure that the day after Nine Inch Nails’ final date of their “Wave Goodbye” farewell tour in 2009, someone somewhere started counting the days until the next Nine Inch Nails album. Cynically, the...
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Album Review: Pearl Jam – Lightning Bolt
It’s funny to think that as of Lightning Bolt‘s release, we’ve had records from Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, and now Pearl Jam within a year of each other after the latter spent over a decade as...
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Album Review: Foo Fighters – Sonic Highway
The Foo Fighters are in a weird place. Ok, ok, a platinum selling, non-legacy actual rock band in 2014 is in a weird place to begin with, but Foo Fighters got here in a kind of odd way. They’ve spent...
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Album Review: Florence and the Machine – How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
It’s fun to see what kind of images you can extrapolate from a band name, and how close those images match those of the band in real life. It’s a bit of a hobby for me. For Florence and the Machine,...
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Album Review: Weezer – Weezer (The White Album)
Yes, it’s good. In fact, while Weezer’s tenth album overall and fourth self-titled one–aka “the White Album“–is their third quality album in a row after Hurley in 2010 and 2014’s Everything Will Be...
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Album Review: Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
The internet gets weird during Radiohead season. Radiohead fanaticism feels hardwired into the net (at least in music circles) in a way it isn’t for anyone else. You can at least hear The BeyHive...
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“I’m Not Like You Guys”: Ten Years of Angels and Airwaves
Ten years ago today, erstwhile blink-182 co-founder Tom DeLonge released the first album by his second band, We Don’t Need to Whisper by Angels & Airwaves. This was a baffling move in 2006, and has...
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You Should See Them Live: Alice in Chains at Taft Theater in Cincinnati
I would love to see 15 year old me’s reaction if I told him he’d go on to see one of his favorite bands live, mostly because I don’t think he’d believe me. He definitely wouldn’t believe that they came...
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