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Archive for January 2009

F’ed Up Addendum

I just recently reviewed the Fucked Up show in Baltimore, and just today came across this video. The band’s record The Chemistry of Common Life topped a year end best list issued by Fox News. Yes, Fox News of fair and balanced coverage fame. More details on this, their simultaneous appearance on Fox News and  [...]

Fucked Up, Vincent Black Shadow, Deep Sleep, Surroundings – Talking Head, Balitmore MD

 
 
Fucked Up is one of the few active bands that I will go and see anytime they play within a 120 mile radius of where I am living. I have no idea how many times that I have seen them, but I can say that these shows span now fewer than 4 cities and 2 [...]

Knight School: The Poor & Needy Need To Party

The basement stinks with the ghosts of beer past. Your sneakers stick to the floor and make an awful ripping sound each time you lift your feet. Everybody is plugged in. Here’s a few chords (do your best to play along). Sip your drink. Mumble the lyrics until you find a hook. Try not to [...]

Playlist: Wintry Mix

Some people hate snow.  I hate those people.
Well, alright, I understand where they’re coming from.  Ours is not a species evolved to flourish naturally in cold environments.  In fact, our distant ancestors had to wear the dead carcasses of other species just to survive moderately cool climates.   I imagine as early humans migrated north, [...]

Fires of Rome – You Kingdom You

I really don’t know what I would do without emusic.  On a whim I downloaded this album as it was a popular download yesterday.  Let’s just say I’ve found out exactly why, and so has everyone else in my house…not that they’ve had a choice.
This album offers up ten tracks of some of the catchiest [...]

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