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Peculiar Planet Picayune

Posted by Undead Molly on Sun, Feb 14, 2010

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Hi! Sorry it’s been so long. We were traveling, first to St. Augustine, Florida then Ottawa, Ontario. If you tried to guess which one I like better you might be surprised. Ottawa is pretty and has lots of great restaurants, but the city counsel has worked very hard to keep the city sanitized and free [...]

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Christopher Lee to Release Metal Album

Posted by Casey Rae-Hunter on Tue, Jan 5, 2010

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Can this guy get any cooler? I grew up watching Christopher Lee in the old Hammer Horror films, and he’s always been something of a “fantasy grandpa” to me. His late-career turn as Saruman in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings was awesome enough, but now he’s set to release a symphonic metal album based [...]

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More Dumb Lists: Underrated Guitarists

Posted by Casey Rae-Hunter on Tue, Dec 1, 2009

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We interrupt our Best Music of the ’00s rundown to give you yet another list, this one comprised of those guitarists — of any decade — that we Contrarians feel are too often overlooked. Underrated by whom, exactly? Start with glossy rags like Rolling Stone and TIME and move right along to Guitar Player, etc. [...]

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Aught-o-graph: Best Music of the Decade

Posted by Casey Rae-Hunter on Sun, Nov 29, 2009

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This post is the first in a series from Contrarian contributors, friends and associates. Here I am listening to Béla Bartók, having spent much of last evening in a fit of Scotch-inspired pique at this decade’s lackluster crop of albums. Now, with the clarity that only an encroaching workweek can engender, I realize that there were [...]

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1986 Flashback: Steve Vai vs. Ralph Macchio

Posted by Casey Rae-Hunter on Thu, Nov 19, 2009

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I was talking to our pal Shane of the Government last night about our shared fondness for the movie Crossroads. No, not the Britney Spears version. This one came out in 1986 and stars Ralph Macchio as a Julliard dropout looking to “learn the blues” from a grizzled old dude who had, many years ago, [...]

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