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Apr
08
Notes on Stadium Crust, Epic Crust, Neocrust, Emokrust, Morrow, and The Wascalliest Wabbit of Them All...Mankind

Notes on Stadium Crust, Epic Crust, Neocrust, Emokrust, Morrow, and The Wascalliest Wabbit of Them All...Mankind

1. Fall of Efrafa [https://fallofefrafa.bandcamp.com] was a crust punk band that thematically utilized a mythos inspired by
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Mar
22
Death Is Big And Stupid

Death Is Big And Stupid

The last thing I’ve ever wanted to be is the sort of writer who uses grief as a shortcut
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Mar
04
Abundant Living New Music Recommendations for March

Abundant Living New Music Recommendations for March

So, how many essays about music this week are starting or ending with a variation of “in times of horror,
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Feb
18
Closing Time: Premrock, Art Vs. Work, Hip Hop Influence, and the Tom Waits-To-Tending-Bar Pipeline

Closing Time: Premrock, Art Vs. Work, Hip Hop Influence, and the Tom Waits-To-Tending-Bar Pipeline

Every once in a while, while I'm tending bar, a customer will ask me, "what do you
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Feb
02
Ranking The Sprechgesanganistas

Ranking The Sprechgesanganistas

Recently, The Quietus reviewed [https://thequietus.com/articles/31041-yard-act-the-overload-review] a band called Yard Act who are apparently popular in the
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Jan
12
Nobody Can Touch Him: Mark Eitzel, Poetry vs. Rock Music, Fame, Failure, and The Other Star of Maverick

Nobody Can Touch Him: Mark Eitzel, Poetry vs. Rock Music, Fame, Failure, and The Other Star of Maverick

Part 1 The other day, Zohra and I got into a small but significant disagreement about the old television show,
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Dec
21
Yr On The List (plus 50)

Yr On The List (plus 50)

It’s been a decidedly terrible year in more ways than I can count, and I can honestly say that
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Nov
25
The Revolution Will Not Be Shoegazed (Or Maybe It Will)

The Revolution Will Not Be Shoegazed (Or Maybe It Will)

A heated online brawl can be nice, especially when not all of the participants are outright scumbags. Like one of
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Nov
14
Notes On Satanic Energy In Music

Notes On Satanic Energy In Music

Pity the poor, pasty black metal musician, spending his every waking hour texting “u up?” to Lucifer Morning Star, only
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Nov
03
Upper Wilds, Classic Rock Band

Upper Wilds, Classic Rock Band

When I claim that the band Upper Wilds [https://upperwilds.bandcamp.com/album/venus]plays Americana, I know I’m
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