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Turns out, as predicted, this guy is awesome. (Yes, Bon Iver is a band, not just a moniker for Justin Vernon, but only in the same way Bright Eyes isn’t a moniker for Conor Oberst.) What was troubling on this chilly, chilly evening was the amount of people that noticed the entire set was in the same [...]
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Oscars
I’m no oscar buff. I like to think of myself as well versed in films, but that’s generally limited to a bunch of movies no one else really likes, those weird twisted ones that never even get close to nominated (how’d they pass up Sunshine for…. I don’t know, any category. It was super awesome.) I did [...]
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More in Summer Concerts
Bonnaroo managed to land The Mars Volta to their bill, those praised as the “new” Led Zeppelin. Maybe that’s not entirely true, but they do get enough comparisons as far as vocals, guitar and overall hype so that the festival’s combination of them, Lez Zeppelin, and Robert Plant should be enough of a consellation [...]
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Bon Iver
Bon Iver’s story is just amazing. It really does sound like fiction, just too perfect, too poetic to be true. According to bio, Justin Vernon moved out to the woods, to his father’s cabin all alone to concern himself with somewhat a simpler life. What occurred was three months without distraction (besides, you know, eating [...]
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More Great Shows
SO, it has just come to my attention that SEE-I will be playing several shows around at the Eighteenth Street Lounge in the next few weeks, all of which everyone should come see. Why? Because SEE-I is awesome. A great dub, reggae band, they put on fantastic shows every time they perform. First of all, [...]
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SHORTSTACK EP RELEASE PARTAY!
FEBRUARY 1ST AT THE BLACK CAT! THE party of the decade! Make sure you’re there to see local rockers Shortstack release their Covers EP, with songs covered from The Kinks, Captain Beefheart, The Pupils, and more! In fact, I had a chance to sit down with Adrian Carroll and Burleigh Seaver, singer and guitarists of Shortstack [...]
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Rambo
The most anticipated movie since “Rocky Balboa” opened and is subsequently kicking every other movie’s proverbial ass. Electricity in other theaters are going out in cinemas across the nation because every watt available is used to power just one showing of Rambo. Gene Siskel woke up, saw an advanced screening, dubbed the movie [...]
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