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Now I don’t mean to be a fanboy, nor do I mean to ignore some of the great people that I’ve neglected to highlight on the below image, but I feel this best illustrates my state of mind:

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I’m just a shy computer geek, so seeing my grinning mug among such characters is just [...]

Greg MacPherson’s traditionally had a very assertive singing style, a commanding tone that’s at the core of all the Strummer and Springsteen comparisons he’s garnered. While that element’s certainly a large part of this record, there’s something else at play here. Night Flares is surprisingly vulnerable at times, shockingly so on the initial few listens. [...]

My formative years (musically speaking) had an unexplained connection to the great western mecca of Calgary. Two of the first independent Canadian bands I ever saw in a club hailed from that city. One was a fantastic instrumental surf revivalist trio called the Huevos Rancheros and the other was punk quartet Chixdiggit. It probably served [...]

There’s some sort of divide between myself, who used the internet prior to popularization of the instant messager, and the youth of today. Now I don’t subscribe to whatever random instant message chat services that must exist. Sure, my online handle is easy to obtain, but you have to purposely add it in if you [...]

Not being immediately familiar with the local NYC scene, it was easy to assume that the NY Rel-X were a much older band. Just look at their touring history. Since the turn of the century the four-piece has logged miles with the Adicts, UK Subs, Slaughter & The Dogs, the Exploited, Discharge, the Misfits and [...]