Monthly archives: April, 2016

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Elephant Revival | Petals

It’s been cold, rainy and windy here for a few days.  Really gloomy stuff. And not just because Prince left us.  Well, maybe.  His legend is still growing post mortem to the point where I may have heard about his ability to change the weather with his confident, post-guitar-solo, self satisfied grins.  Regardless of the origins…




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Houndmouth | Little Neon Limelight

Prince is gone. Just the other day I was laughing about that candid photo taken of him on a bicycle.  And the week before about his basketball playing on Chappelle’s Show.  Yeah, I’m pretty sure it was really him. Especially since moving to Minnesota I feel like Prince comes up in my life pretty frequently. Which…




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Weezer – The White Album

For a band that I like Weezer has made a lot of truly awful songs.  I mean for awhile there in the 2000s nearly every album that they released was entirely trash. I must have been a masochist to have dug through dozens of shitty synth indulgences and top 40 gimmick tracks to find 1 or 2…




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Sturgill Simpson | Metamodern Sounds in Country Music

Outlaw Country Musician Sturgill Simpson is getting a ton of buzz lately in anticipation of his upcoming new album, A Sailor’s Guide to Earth.  Even as someone not particularly connected with the country music scene it’s been hard to miss the fact that Sturgill is suddenly an “it” artist when he’s being discussed everywhere from…