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Panic! at the Palahniuk

I didn’t know it at the time (because I was nine), but P!ATD’s record A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out makes numerous references to quite a few of Palahniuk’s novels. Considering I love both the band and the authour, I decided to reread some of Chuck’s books, and listen to AFYCSO again and find all of the connections I could

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Whole Lot of Hating Goin' On

Music is a great outlet for anger and at this moment I am so furious that I would like to duct tape myself to a chair to prevent bloodshed. We have covered music and emotion numerous times hell we have covered allot of things numerous times.

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Music Justice Must Be Served

Hopefully, people will eventually realize that what they’re listening to is nothing more than a weak attempt at making billions of dollars, and that music is there to inspire you- not just make you want to dance.

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The Road To Success For A Band In Los Angeles

Think about it, the Satellite is the place which has hosted the debuts of bands such as The Decemberists, Kaiser Chiefs, Keane, Arctic Monkeys, My Morning Jacket, the Killers, the Shins, Arcade Fire and the Black Keys! At this time, it was still called Spaceland and it has been the starting point of many famous indie acts

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Crash And Burning On Stage!

Watching Fiona Apple on Sunday, got me to think of how much she has changed since her titanic flameout at Roseland where in 2000 a mix of nerves and sound fuck ups had a devastated Fiona begging the journalists there not to write about it and then storming off the stage a coupla songs into her set!

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A Hard Day's Night Box Set? Here Is What We Want RIGHT NOW

If the powers that be can bring this in at under the $200 mark and release one or two a year, they would be the ultimate last word on every single Beatles album and the last word for a beatles fan. See what Columbia has done with Davis… it is time to centralize things and to complete them. It is time for the BEATLES BOX SET!!!

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Can Music Ease Physical Pain? NO!!!!

Music’s power lies in its ability to function in the back and the foreground simultaneously. You can manipulate its presence by the power of your mind: if you’ve ever been listening to a song and gotten a phone call, you will see what I mean: the song instantly changes position in the levels of your brain.

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Wilson Pickett On Vinyl

Up until now I’ve used my Sony turntable, but it too has the old RCA plugs. It would only work on our desktop computer and was a bit of a hassle to set up, so I didn’t use it as much as I wanted to. Then I spotted the Ion Quick Flash in Barnes and Noble and snapped it up.

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Cool Bands That I Don't Like!!

, Juliana Hatfield namechecked the fuck outta Westerberg in her memoir and my good buddy Bill holdship wrote the liner notes to the reissues. And whenever I get around to listening to em, I don’t dislike them. But don’t color me impressed either.

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The Ten Rock Critic Commandments!!

We rock critics, bad ass bloggers, whatever the fuck we are, are part of a dying breed. You can’t make money making fun of pompous ass rock stars and you sure can’t make friends being on the side of the angels

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Is Hardcore The New Indie?

‘Certainly, indie rock is at its most banal right now. Nothing against Arcade Fire because they are an unbelievable band, but how many terrible bands that thrive on that sound are we going to have to put up with?”

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God Save The Queen?

Here in the States, we consider it a mix of smart and silly, we can afford not to care after handing King George his hat back in the day. Will Elizabeth Rex ever retire? Morrissey is considering it yeah, but Lizzy? I sincerely doubt we will ever see her leaving any way except thru Westminster Abby.

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Nicki Minaj Cancels Summer Jam Gig Beyond Whack

When Wu Tang Clan headlined Hot 97 years ago and were pissed at the station, Ol’ Dirty Bastard called them out from the stage, saying he didn’t see why they were there at all since the radio station never played their music. They then proceeded to blow the Continental (now the Izod) down. I know this for sure, I was there.That’s how you respond to a slight (and Wu’s was real, not Minaj’s bullshit whingeing).

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Civil War At rock nyc!!!

OK, I’ve had it with co-editor Helen Bach and Chief Writer Alyson Camus. Enough of their guff. In separate posts here today, Helen and Alyson took my soft spots to task and THEY WERE BOTH WRONG!

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Sex, Love and Music and Extra Credit: "Lua"

We had to react to either a heartfelt love song, or a vulgar sex ballad. It was a song of our choice, to reflect our musical tastes. Upon first hearing of the assignment, I went straight to “I Want To Know Your Plans” by Say Anything. I felt as though it was too obviously a love song, so I went with something a bit more thought provoking and realistic- Bright Eyes’ “Lua”.

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The Soundtrack To Your Funeral

don’t know how you can have a song, or a playlist, represent your life. The song that meant the most? That reflects your very being? A state of mind or (hopefully) transition. A farewell and Amen, or a celebration?

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My Love-Hate Relationship With Beck

Beck’s styles are as diverse as Baskin-Robbins’ flavors and nevertheless all of them are totally his, you cannot miss a Beck song when you hear one, they all have his kid-in-a-candy-store’s magic touch, who can effortless sample, rearrange, and fool around with sounds

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Loudon Wainwright III – Career Moves

Everyone in the Wainwright family became fair game for Loudon’s often acerbic music. Martha received a parental divorce notification in “Your Mother and I” and a birthday song for “Five Years Old.” His breast feeding son was the subject of “Rufus Is a Tit Man.”

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The Best of The Monkees Reviewed In A Way

The songs on this LP were recorded from 1966 to 1969, so basically during my life span of birth to three. Yet as a young Hel I can vividly remember hearing ‘Cheer Up Sleepy Jean” through the wall as my sister and her friends squealed.

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The Death Of The Album As Event

The floodgates are open and if you thought we had no attention span in the 1980s, you have no idea what it can be like in the 21st century: the immediacy of sound, choice, or life, is sci-fi like. If you stop and think about it, book and record stores died on us! We don’t have the time because we don’t need to give up the time.

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Celebrity Death And A Growing Absence

In New York City, 148 people die every day. It is impossible to care unless they effect you. Oh, perhaps a baby is hit by a stray bullet in the Bronx, and you feel empathy and sympathy, but really really… life is for living

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Marilyn Manson, Shallow as a Spit Pool

Its the arrogance that makes me want to kick him in the cup. As if he is doing us a favor by being so cool. The interview shows the more idiotic side of Manson as he whines about how the record company interfered with his art

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When Just One Song Changes A Bands Life

Readying myself for Saturday’s Red Hot Chili Pepper’s concert at Prudential, I was listening to their music and found my self at “Give It Away”. For RHCP life occured in two parts, before and after “Give It Away”. This is probably true of many, although not all, succesful bands

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A Real Beatles Reunion

When people die we honor their absence by accepting their absence, it can’t be filled by anything but memories and the reality of passage is in the passing away. By using hologroms, by denying the self-evident, we perpetuate a sort of mindless pain

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The Sonic Youth of Today, Not So Popular

I was pleased to not get any songs by Justin Bieber. None of these songs are on the top of the charts, so who is it exactly who determines what’s popular and number 1? It seems as though the people I associate with are still exploring the music that we were raised on, and we stray from the path.

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All Into The Dead Pool

Betting on rock and roll death is a suckers game, for one thing ask not for whom the bell tolls, etc. etc, and for another, life is way too random and for a third… well, for a third I would’ve bet that Robin Gibb was gone before Levon Helm.

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Is Bono Gay?

Sure, the masses will gossip about the actions of the great and nobody is claiming that there is any reason why Bono shouldn’t be gay if he wants to. I mean, he has a dick, he is a dick so why not suck a dick. right?

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