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Synchronicity, Too

Posted by Casey Rae-Hunter on Mon, Jan 25, 2010

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I know I give terrestrial commercial radio a lot of shit, and rightly so. But today, my local JACK FM station — aka “soccer mom iPod shuffle” — played some songs that hit me where I live. (That’s DC, for those who haven’t been following along). I woke up with “Wrapped Around Your Finger” by the [...]

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The Aughts — Whatever Norton Remembers

Posted by Norton on Fri, Dec 4, 2009

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So what was I listening to in the last decade….? Well, we started out with Fugazi’s latest/last (?) album, The Argument. You could look at Fugazi’s entire catalog from this album and see in crystalline vision the sum of it’s parts. It’s as though they explained everything. Even now, each time I hear this record I [...]

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Underrated Guitarists EXTRA — by Delancey Leathers

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

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My man Delancey Leathers knows from guitar. Which is why I’m throwing his picks into this “supplementary” post. Who is this mysterious Mr. Leathers, you ask? It’s best that I don’t reveal his true identity, but I can say the man is capable of six-string sorcery that most mortals can only dream of. Anyway, here’s his [...]

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Stupid Music Ideas I Will Never Get To

Posted by Casey Rae-Hunter on Wed, Oct 28, 2009

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Sometimes, when in the shower, I am struck by a barrage of ideas for songs, albums, odd musical projects, etc. Here are a handful that I will likely never find time for: A Latino death metal band called Sotomayor (after the first Latina Supreme Court justice, natch). The set list is ever-evolving, but most of the [...]

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Through The Eyes Of A Child

Posted by Neil Cleary on Thu, Jul 16, 2009

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These days we seem to forget it, or gloss over it, or simply flat-out deny it, but the fact remains: childhood is weird. It’s not all Harry Potter and birthday parties and 2-dimensional Raffi-style feelings. It’s loads more Brothers Grimm and Pan’s Labyrinth and Watership Down. Old Yeller dies, Shane doesn’t come back, young Christina [...]

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