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Dinosaur Jr. @ First Avenue
November 20, 2009 – 10:59 am | No Comment

The Amherst trio had towers of amps stacked up all over the stage, including one that was pointed directly towards front man J Mascis, in case his monitors weren’t providing him enough of his own guitar sound. And not having enough sound has never really been a problem for the group, and it certainly wasn’t on this evening as the band tore through a fiery 90 minute set that spanned the band’s entire career.

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Pay Up, Here Come the Metermaids
January 18, 2007 – 9:30 am | No Comment

Inevitable comparisons to Minneapolis’ Atmosphere aside, New York’s Metermaids blaze a strict duality, finding balance between their grounded roots, gritty rhymes and loveable accessibility. MC Swell and DJ Spacecaboose offer up their own “bad …

Interview with Exit Clov
January 17, 2007 – 8:45 am | 3 Comments

Washington D.C. indie pop group Exit Clov’s songs of “revolution, ennui and societal idiocy” are putting the indie back in… well, indie. Vocalists Susan and Emily Hsu refuse to accept ideologies at face value, including …

Kelly Osbourne: Papa Don’t Help
January 15, 2007 – 3:31 pm | One Comment

Drowned in Sound begins the day with an interesting note of news surrounding a family of oft-tainted musical royalty, The Osbournes. What was eye-catching about the blurb was not simply the fact that Ms. …

Banned in the US!! Part 2
January 11, 2007 – 9:00 am | 2 Comments

Bleach, Bleachmobile, Bleach03. Whatever the name, it’s three Japanese girls from Okinawa (their words, not mine) who’ve been making an unholy but surprisingly catchy racket for years. It’s tempting to not take them …

A Decade of Degeneration: An AFI Retrospective
January 10, 2007 – 9:00 am | 31 Comments

The band’s decade-long history is actually closer to sixteen years, but it was with the 1997 release, Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes, and in particular the album’s single “Third Season,” which A Fire …

Banned in the US!! Part 1
January 9, 2007 – 9:00 am | 3 Comments

OK, so they’re not exactly banned, but this is a piece on recent releases by two very deserving bands that have nearly no presence in America and/or the UK, Magic Dirt and Bleach (aka Bleach03).
Australians …

2006 In Review: Daniel Toccalino of Leopold & His Fiction
January 8, 2007 – 9:00 am | 2 Comments

[by: Daniel Toccalino]
At one point or another I devoted an immense amount of attention, in some form or another, to each of these songs. I can’t rightly tell you if I was obsessed with …

Culture Bully’s Top 30 Albums of 2006
January 1, 2007 – 10:00 am | 4 Comments

#30) Be Your Own PET Be Your Own PET
As much as music blogs were deemed unnecessary and deluded by mainstream media due to their quick-to-act hype of certain bands, so too can music fans classify …