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Spooky SZN Sounds: Sacred Skin, Born In Fire

We had to do it. We had to! You listen to the kind Darkwave-tinged Electro that Sacred Skin is making and tell us it doesn’t somewhat fit under the “Spooky SZN Sounds” banner! Also, we were already late to the Sacred Skin party when we came across them early in 2025 and have procrastinated enough […]

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Jokes! Episode 2: Hannibal Buress Live From Chicago

“I’m Hannibal Buress, represented by Hannibal Buress” That statement alone about sums up what you’re getting into when you turn on Buress’ latest, Live From Chicago. Penguin sandwiches, who’ll die first: Buress or Will Smith, why he’s not currently Scarlett Johansson’s baby daddy, why pissing in your sink is the [...]

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The Afghan Whigs, Do To The Beast: Album Review

It’s been 16 years since The Afghan Whigs last album. Frontman Greg Dulli has successfully navigated a post-Whigs career by fronting additional acts (The Twilight Singers, Gutter Twins) and through solo work. Sometimes absence makes the heart grow fonder and on the new Afghan Whigs album, the labor of love [...]

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Untitled Metal Column: Volume 3 (4.18.14)

Oh my, the riffs! It’s as if Karma To Burn finally found the right vocalist, added some Hermano soul and a touch of Clutch’s Southern fried rawk. That’s Pet The Preacher. They rule all and you’d be a fool not to sit up and pay attention. The Cave & The [...]

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“Destroy My Love” will not ‘destroy’ your love of Those Mockingbirds!

Didja get a chance to check out Those Mockingbirds when they hit New England last month? No? Then you missed one helluva show AND maybe a chance to catch this little number live. The song is “Destroy My Love” and if it’s even the slightest indicator of what the upcoming [...]

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Jokes! Episode 1: Jasper Redd Jazz Talk

I’m never really sure how to rate a comedy album. Do you judge it on the content? On the flow? Or do you go by how many times an album makes you laugh? How hard you laugh? Does a giggle get a lower grade? A chuckle a higher one? What [...]

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Chevelle, La Gargola: Album Review

  As I tackle listening to the new Chevelle – I mean really listening to it on a pair of headphones – I start to hear something worth talking about on album #7 from the Chicago trio. If one were to go back to 1999, when the band first dropped [...]

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