Music
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Review: Piunti’s “Heart Inside Your Head” Not So Complicated
If you’re feeling up for some good, wistful summer dad-rock, check out Heart Inside Your Head, the sophomore album from Nick Piunti & The Complicated Men, released tomorrow May 20, 2022. The Detroit-based power pop band, with Nick Piunti on lead vocals, guitars and synthesizer, Jeff Daksiewicz on electric guitar, Kevin Darnall on piano, organ…
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Review: Spooning Lucifer on the Sofa
Admittedly, if asked to recall a single Spoon album, let alone a single track, I’m going to come up short. It’s a band that never really stuck with me, and in preparation for this review, I had to go back and be sure I didn’t already have some foundational knowledge. I went. I do not.…
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Review: Dean Wareham Has the Last Word
Today sees the release of Dean Wareham’s solo LP I Have Nothing to Say to the Mayor of LA. Recorded last November at Panoramic House in Stinson Beach, CA, Wareham, founder of both Galaxie 500 and Luna, cites The Man in the Red Coat as his inspiration, a book about “dandies, drug addicts, artists and…
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Review: Bicentennial Drug Lord’s ‘BDL’ Fits Like a Nice Sweater After All These Years
Like a favorite sweater
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Review: Leah Blevins’ ‘First Time Feeling,’ Pure and Magical Country Music
A country album that adheres to roots and plays with the genre
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The Instagram Joy of Mike Campbell
There’s a magnificent solace happening on Instagram. Since the pandemic forced people into their homes, musicians and artists alike have taken to the social media platform to showcase their talents from hip-hop battles on Instagram Live to DJs streaming sets — even much like they would in your favorite bar. The new master of Instagram,…
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Martin Scorsese’s Netflix Story on Rolling Thunder Blasts The Past
There’s a chapter in Harper Lee’s seminal work To Kill a Mockingbird where innocent narrator Scout loses one more aspect of that innocence and takes another vital step into adulthood when she realizes that hired help Calpurnia leads two lives: the strict, maternal figure in Scout and brother Jem’s house and another as a member…
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It’s the Biggest Weekend of the Year (So Far)
The rut of bad movies are done. Summer is almost here. Music is in the air. People are already looking for some beach reads. And some of the most watched television airs on Sundays in April the year of our Lord 2019. This weekend, April 26th through April 28th is easily the biggest weekend of…
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Top Ten Season: My Favorite Albums of 2018
This year was full of great releases, and while 2017 may have outdone 2018 in music, there’s still plenty to hear. Two movie soundtracks appear on this year’s list – it’s entirely dictated by my personal tastes and not meant to be all-inclusive. If you like any of these picks (or strongly disagree with one),…