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Friday Flow: "THINK" by Klasik

posted: December 4, 2009

Every Friday on the OurStage blog, I’ll be featuring a great example of flow and lyricism in hip hop songs pulled from the OurStage ranks. I’ll get the artist’s thoughts on the song, as well…
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Pity Party

posted: December 2, 2009

Dancing to a somber song can be a strange sensation, but one that’s oddly cathartic. San Francisco’s Geographer offers unlikely material for hipster dance parties in the form of triumphant indie rock drenched in reverb,…
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Country Catch: Raising Cane

posted: December 1, 2009

This week’s country catch was netted way out in Idaho in the form of Raising Cane. A veteran to country music”having lived in Nashville for years”the man behind Raising Cane is a seasoned professional at…
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50 States in 50 Weeks…Week 25: Mississippi

posted: December 1, 2009

Fun Facts: State Tree; Magnolia, State Insect; Honeybee, State Song; Go, Mississippi Home of: B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Elvis Presley, Afroman, Milton Babbitt, Sam Cooke The Venues: Blues and the South go hand in hand.…
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Metal Monday: A Look at Metal Supergroups

posted: November 30, 2009

Imagine for a second that you’re Scott “Wino” Weinrich of Saint Vitus and The Obsessed fame, and you have had a shortage of musical projects to work on. Maybe you have a few friends and…
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Pluck o' the Irish

posted: November 30, 2009

Plenty of Irish folk bands have found eager listeners on American soil over the years, beginning with the Chieftains and Clancy Brothers in the 60s and 70s. If Irish folk popularity had waned a bit…
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