Clap Your Hands Say Yeah‘s debut album was my #1 of 2005. This indie rock gem seemed to come out out of nowhere. It was the first truly Internet-based release I had experienced. These guys from Pennsylvania and New York did not have a manager, a label or distribution. They were hand pressing the...
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Jay Reatard joins a long list of famous people that have OD’d on cocaine. The 29 year old singer/songwriter, who died last month, will join the likes of Mitch Hedberg, Layne Staley, River Pheonix, John Belushi, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Chris Farley, Shannon Hoon, Len Bias and Sigmund Freud…among many others.
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Franz Nicolay, the moustached keyboardist, accordion player, backup singer and just all around entertaining member of my favorite band has left. This sucks! Franz was an important part of The Hold Steady dynamic and things won’t be the same without him. “You should know: I’ve left the Hold Steady. I told the band I’d...
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Jay Reatard died in his sleep last night. He was 29 years old. No word on the cause yet. I was not a huge fan of Jay, but I did appreciate what he was doing…bringing back gritty, fuzzy, crunchy garage rock like nobody else had done in awhile. He released a warehouse worth of...
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Brooklyn-based Alexis Krauss and Derek Miller represent everything that is wrong or right with music today. The answer depends on who you ask. As Sleigh Bells, they are performing and posting some lo-fi material that will either get your head bobbing or have you running out of the venue or hitting delete before you...
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Spencer Krug. Lead singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist for the amazing Wolf Parade and Sunset Rubdown. Also a member of Swan Lake and a former member of Frog Eyes and the now defunct Fifths of Seven. He has been called the next Thom Yorke (by me). He is the single human being on the planet...
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“Radiohead are back in the studio.” “They are in a different place than they were with Kid A.” “The vibe is fantastic.” This is good news! But to be honest I really don’t care if they release a new album or not, I just want them to come play Red Rocks! I have only...
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After 13 years apart, the original members of Soundgarden have reunited according to posts on Facebook and Twitter by Chris Cornell. It’s been quite awhile since I’ve even thought about Soundgarden, but now that I am, I am thinking this might be a great show. Not too sure about a new album, but hell,...
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In May of 1994 I moved to San Diego from Auburn, CA. I was a small town kid in a big (at least I thought it was big then) city. The first thing I did was grab a Reader and look up what concerts were coming. I was 17 and had never been to...
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