5.28.2023: Here is my buddy Joel’s drunken text from 5.4: ‘Take Some Time’ by Wilderado. Probably my favorite song right now after only one listen. Fucking A. This shit is melody.
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2022: Dawes is a Los Angeles-based folk-rock band that has been making music since 2009. Their eighth studio album, Misadventures of Doomscroller,
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2021: Ben Cardew at Pitchfork writes: Altin Gün’s third album arrives with the same mysterious allure as a weirdly shaped parcel found under the Christmas tree. Trapped in lockdown
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Stephen M Deusner at Pitchfork writes: After his first two albums sold next to nothing and his music career sputtered out in the early 1970s, Bill Fay settled into what you might call a normal life. He worked as a groundskeeper for a London park
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A really great record my friend John Smallman turned me on to. It has an original sound with echos of The Smiths, Donovan, War on Drugs and The Sadies. Gunn’s unique soothing vox really goes well with these indie twang and acoustic numbers.
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5.25.19 A fantastic striped-down acoustic album. Just a man and his guitar. It might sound easier to put together this kind of record. But I think the artist is more exposed and songwriting is more front and center without all the accompaniment and studio trickery.
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2.17.19 I discovered Sharon for the first time watching 3rd season of Twin Peaks. You know the closing numbers to each episode. Like all of Lynch’s musical decisions; haunting and beautiful. When researching, as I often do,
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11.6.17 Admittedly I have not kept up with Plant's post Zeppelin works other than 83s The Principle of Moments. And I was a wee lad then. So, in fairness I had to crash coarse the past 2 and a half decades of Robert's releases on the ol' Spotif-a-trolla.
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9.17.17 DAVID SACKLLAH @ Consequence of Sound writes: There’s a special kind of loneliness that comes along with big cities. Unlike rural, country towns, you’re surrounded by the bustle of millions of others wrapped up in their busy lives.
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3.17.17 I guess It's called Celtic Punk and it is Saint Patrick's day '17 as I write this so right perfect huh. The Dropkick Murphys hail from Quincy, Massachusetts, a suburb South of South Boston. You don't have to be from Ireland
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