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   Jason Baygood – Space Age Bottom Dweller

   Jul 27, 2023
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   Katie Karpowicz – Good Bass Players Are Hard to Find

   Feb 23, 2023 Steve Long
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   Pete Mittler (Methadones, Bollweevils, Naked Raygun, et al) – Sensitive Player

   Nov 23, 2022 Steve Long
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   Mike Jacobs (On the Cinder) – Bass and Wings

   Oct 27, 2022 Steve Long
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   Ben Caito (Lurid Purple Flowers) – The Glue

   Sep 29, 2022 Steve Long
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   Andy Wylie (The Drowns) – Bottom End Lunatic

   Aug 25, 2022 Steve Long
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   Dave Klein (A Vulture Wake) – Rhythm and Blues

   Aug 4, 2022 Steve Long
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   Singing The Sorrow

   Through my bleeding, we've all won

   Apr 20, 2022 Patrick Erhard
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   It Was Never About the Music

   As if there wasn’t a choice, that supporting others is just inherently how you make music. Losing that hurts so much more.

   Jul 28, 2021 Peter J. Woods
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    The Highest Concepts and the Dumbest Jokes: A Review of “Pulse Demon (but it’s just my voice)”

    Dedicate yourself to the ridiculous, see it through to the end, and sometimes magic happens.

    Jun 2, 2021 Peter J. Woods
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    Figuring it Out in Sitcoms: Examining Whiteness in King of the Hill and Letterkenny

    Apr 29, 2021 Peter J. Woods
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    The Intimate Spectacle of Noise

    I’d pay good money to see a mnemonist at this point, to go back to a place I’ve never been and witness this weird and beautiful act of remembering.

    Mar 31, 2021 Peter J. Woods
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    Reframing the Existential Crisis of Candyland (or Why You Should Start Your Own Peloton Service)

    This experiment reveals the value of sharing work with people in the world. Even if it is something as dumb as a DIY Peloton servic

    Feb 24, 2021 Peter J. Woods
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    The Best Gesture of 2020: Composing with an Intimate Noise

    The overwhelming volume may have disappeared, but there’s still a collage of noises that fill the isolating gap. It just falls on us to make sure we hear them.

    Jan 27, 2021 Peter J. Woods
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    The Joy of No One Saying No

    The line, apparently, was cat buttholes.

    Dec 24, 2020 Peter J. Woods
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    The New Old Normal of The Dress Up Gang

    The show poses a simple question: why does western civilization still buy into this ridiculous concept of a family?

    Nov 25, 2020 Peter J. Woods
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    The Bouncing Souls – The Gold Record

    Stay golden, ponyboy

    Nov 18, 2020 Erin Doyle
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    Some Thoughts on Oscillators and Shark Violence

    The dumpster fire that is this global pandemic, this technicolor late-stage capitalist wonderland, rages on as a certain melancholy sinks in. Whether I’m grieving or not seems unimportant.

    Oct 21, 2020 Peter J. Woods
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    Green Day – Dookie

    Sep 24, 2020 Erin Doyle
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    The Hope of an Old Joke

    [It's the hope that comes from] the banal routine of landing the same dumb goof over and over again, sometimes for decades.

    Sep 16, 2020 Peter J. Woods
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    Skincare During a Pandemic

    Sep 10, 2020 Erin Doyle
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    NOFX – Punk in Drublic

    Aug 20, 2020 Erin Doyle
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    X-ray Spex – Germ Free Adolescent

    Aug 6, 2020 Erin Doyle
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    An Unabashed Love Letter to the Andrew Weathers Ensemble

    A brilliantly human gesture filled with an insistence of beauty and power, one of many similar gestures within the group’s discography.

    Aug 5, 2020 Peter J. Woods