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Alien Boy – Changes Everyones’s favorite Portland, OR punk rockers, Alien Boy announced today that their new LP, You Wanna Fade? will be officially released on May 9th via Get Better Records. And with that announcement they dropped the first single from the album, “Changes”. a poppier version of the sludgy shoegaze which Alien Boy
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Elvis Costello & Steve Nieve Live at The Count Basie Theatre (2025-02-21) The first time I saw Elvis Costello and The Attractions was in March of 1979 at New York City’s Palladium. I drove down to the city from Ithaca in my friend Rich’s VW bug and as it would turn out, we smoked a
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Richard Davies & The Dissidents: High Times & Misdemeanours Richard Davies has been bouncing around the London rock and roll scene for quite some time now, mostly as a gun slinging sidekick in such UK acts as Tiny Monroe and later on, The Snakes. That pretty much changed roughly four years ago when Davies decided
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J.Mascis & Mike Polizze Live at Racket NYC (2025-02-13) I was supposed to see J. Mascis of Dinosaur Jr and Mike Polizze of Purling Hiss at Racket back in November but that short solo tour had to be postponed due to health issues. The rescheduled date was Thursday night and holy hell, it was well
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The Glass Hours Live at McCarren Parkhouse My friends down in the deep south refer to the kind of music that The Glass Hours make as “porch music”. It’s filled with heartfelt lyrics, beautiful harmonies and terrific musicianship and its tailor made for singing and strumming in a rocking chair on a warm sultry summer
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I’ve been doing a running playlist of new music every year for well over a decade which I have always called “I Hate New Music”, a sort of spin on The Replacements’ song “I Hate Music” and the common boomer claim that there is no good new music since the 70’s. Anyway, this year, I’ve
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The Rose City Band – Sol Y Sombra 2025, after 24 days in existence has finally gotten off the schneid. There have been quite a few interesting album releases thus far this year but in all honesty, none have moved me. Up until today, I hadn’t heard anything which dropped in the month of January
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Steve Wynn Live at The 503 Social Club (2025-01-11) Steve Wynn by his own account has led quite the storied rock and roll life. Last August he released his memoir “I Wouldn’t Say it If It Weren’t True: A Memoir Of Life, Music & The Dream Syndicate” Since the release of the book, he has
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