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Florry – “First It Was A Movie, Then It Was A Book” Holy shit, this song just might be the best thing I’ve heard from the year 2025. From the moment I heard the distorted guitar chords into that pounding electronic drum beat into the country tinged guitar strum I was hooked. Then Francie Medosch…
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Beliefs & Thieves – The Kilograms (Rad Girlfriend Records) Sammy Kay, Joe Gittleman and the rest of The Kilograms have been piecing out advanced singles to Beliefs & Thieves for some time now, so it comes as no surprise that this new one is a banger. With a perfect mix of ska, RnR, rocksteady and…
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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…
W.S. Walcott Medicine Show 