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Metal Monday: What If The Church Burnings In Norway Never Happened?

posted: May 7, 2012

Many years ago in a galaxy known as metal, some stuff happened that would change the course of the genre forever (but you probably knew that already). We’re here to ponder things like what if…
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The Second Coming of Refused

posted: May 7, 2012

Let’s face it, sometimes the past should stay dead. But when an awesome artist fades from popularity,  fans later wonder, Where are they now?  You may not know it, but many artists you’ve loved in…
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Sound and Vision: Can Taylor Swift Do Joni Mitchell Justice?

posted: May 4, 2012

Taylor Swift has yet to top Billboard’s Hot 100, but who needs a No. 1 pop single when you’ve sold more than 20 million albums (as of March of 2011), been named Entertainer of the…
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Your Country's Right Here: Cathy and Marcy Uke It Up

posted: May 3, 2012

It seems safe to accept it as a given that Cathy Fink and her musical partner Marcy Marxer didn’t win GRAMMY Awards because they played it safe. Their latest album takes the same non-traditional path with…
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The Tempest

posted: May 2, 2012

The Arts & Crafts Movement describes its music as being noisy and ugly, tender and awkward. And that’s true, but it’s also searching, discontented, romantic ¦ and probably a million other things. The Philadelphia band…
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Riffs, Rants and Rumors: Can Rewrites Krautrock History

posted: May 2, 2012

It’s hard to tell now whether the term “krautrock””originally concocted by the British music weeklies as a catch-all for the experimentally-minded bands coming out of Germany in the beards-and-bellbottoms era ”was intended derisively or not,…
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