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Music QotD: My Musical Horoscope

2008-02-06T03:07:48Z

What's your musical horoscope? (Put your music player on shuffle and write down the first 10 songs that come up.) - This Question of the Day is weak, allowing more for just a simple listing of random music than for any sort of in-depth writing....

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It's a long way back from hell...

2008-02-05T03:05:36Z

I recently spent a week in Presque Isle, Maine, the northern-most point I've visited in the continental US, being roughly 2 degrees of latitude north of Minneapolis. Traveling on business and being unused to the snow and early sunsets, I didn't g...

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Two more, quickly

2008-01-18T03:18:16Z

33 1/3. Again. Thought I was done with these, didn't you? Recently I hit something of a dry patch with the 33 1/3 books. I read several in a row that, to varying degrees, did not work for me. After thoroughly enjoying volume 20 on The Ramones, I...

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Still Searching

2008-01-15T03:12:30Z

As I've written about before, I cut my teeth on metal, but I grew up on punk, more specifically hardcore. These days I don't actually find myself listening to much hardcore music, and it's becoming more of a rarity for newer hardcore bands to cat...

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Perspective

2008-01-09T03:06:41Z

Listening to Yours Truly, Angry Mob, the second effort by Kaiser Chiefs, I'm yet again struck by my enjoyment for an album that I had previously written off. When I purchased ...Angry Mob back in the early part of 2007, I was underwhelmed at be...

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Top Albums of 2007

2008-01-05T06:25:53Z

While I spent the majority of the year listening to dub, goth, and post-punk from the late 70s and early 80s, I still acquired some thirty-odd albums released in 2007, most often via paid download (1). Narrowing these down to my top 10 albums (2) ...

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Hello, 2008

2008-01-01T21:26:45Z

What a way to start the new year. First, I was invited to a get together with people whose company I enjoy a great deal... but I didn't hear my phone ringing and ended up staying home and being way bored last night. Then, this morning I managed t...

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Return of the Mack?

2007-12-29T03:12:18Z

I've been invited via a local message board to sing for a possible new band, something metally. Nothing appears to be solid yet, but color me excited. I'm already thinking of Conan-related names to pitch if this thing gets off the ground.

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CRAZYFEAST

2007-12-22T06:48:06Z

Wow. What a difference a day makes! Crazyfeast tonight was the polar opposite experience from the previous night's show. Again, there was good music to be had, but the differences were legion. Before the show started there was some super sweet pi...

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Shows and things

2007-12-21T06:58:21Z

I don't think I like shows very much anymore. Despite my appreciation for both Shedding and Siberia's sets, I left the Pour Haus agitated tonight. I'm not sure if it was any one thing or just a combination of all of the things I'm starting to hat...

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