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Congratulations to me for getting back from Baltimore.  What a cool place. The best part about getting home?  Possibly that my brother bought me a (full) bottle of tequila in excahnge for having finished the (nearly empty) bottle of tequila I had before I left.  But more likely the best part about getting was that […]

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Paste has a great interview with the Thermals, whose new album, Now We Can See, came out a couple weeks ago.  I’d been meaning to write about it for a bit, mostly just to say how great it is.  It not as immediately mind-blowing as The Blood, the Body, the Machine was, but I think it’s […]

A few weeks ago, I was driving with some friends listening to Oh Astro‘s fantastic album, Champions of Wonder.  None of the other dudes were into it at all.  One of them asked me something to the effect of “What about this music is likeable?”  As in, “This music is not likeable.”  Needless to say, […]

So last night I went to go see the Mozzinator.  My first time.  I was…  underwhelmed?  (That’s probably a word I shouldn’t use very often.) I’m not what you’d consider a die-hard Morrissey fan, so it was probably inevitable that I wouldn’t love going to a crowded show with bad sound and expensive drinks.  But […]

Last night: Pictures and (hopefully) video after…

2008 was kind of a bad year for me regarding new music.  Generally, when I read everyone’s lists of the top albums of the year, I’ve heard of all of it and own a lot of it.  in 2008, however, I pretty much dropped the ball regarding seeking out new music.  Not that I haven’t […]

Via Idolator, Insane Clown Posse it still a thing: A Fargo man is suing the musical act Insane Clown Posse and its rapper Violent J after being injured while attending the band’s June 2007 concert. Okay, at least it was a thing  two summers ago.  So the dude in the band threw a full two-liter […]