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If it’s accepted dogma that Jerry Garcia and Lou Reed symbolize opposing poles along the rock spectrum, then the astonishing music of Steve Gunn reminds us we live
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For the review of the new album by Neil Michael Hagerty & The Howling Hex, I’m joined by psychedelic lifer and professional moocher Funky Donny Fred. FDF: Hey
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Out of nowhere, a new album is pushing all the buttons that MTV’s “120 Minutes” once did back in the 1990s. Tancred play the relentlessly catchy alt-rock that
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Some of us remember traveling in the backseats of family cars on long road trips, leaning over to punch the radio pre-sets and dial in a goldmine of
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Surprise, surprise: Funky Donny Fred shows up to add his two cents about a band named Coke Weed. FDF: Hey man, you know me. LN: Go ahead and
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I know what you’re thinking: “Keep Shelly in Athens?” Look, coming up with a good band names is hard. Just ask Atomic Mass (they eventually changed their name to Def
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Julia Holter has recorded some of the most impressive albums of melodic art music of the past five years, although their erudition and abstraction haven’t always pulled in
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I have a theory about Track 3. In my experience, Track 3 tends to be the most important song on a typical album, if not the “best” song, then the
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It can be difficult for those who came of age before the 1980s to find the sound of soul in a synthesizer (just ask my dad). But the
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Where are the survivors of 1990s electronica? I’m thinking in particular about groups with charismatic women singers: Everything But the Girl, Portishead, Sneaker Pimps, Olive, Mono, Ivy, and
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