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You won’t convince me that the only heroin songs out there are the obvious ones. It’s almost guaranteed that somewhere, some good-guy songwriter is kicking back, having pulled off such a well-disguised smack anthem that no one even noticed it. My mission is to uncover some of these sneaky writers (music blog) ... read more |
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Ladies and gentleman, Mixtape Madness is back, on a mission from God. We’ve got a full tank of gas, half a packet of cigarettes, it’s dark, and we’re wearing sunglasses. Hit it ... read more |
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Since this column has been hibernating longer than Rip Van Winkle (5), I’ll give ya’ll a brief rundown of how things work. Like Glenn Close (6) after seeing an excited and injured soldier in The World According To Garp, I’ll slide in all the biggest music-related stories of the last week and thrust until happy endings are achieved for all ... read more |
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In honor of Cupid and his contumelious nature, Cinema Blend writer Jessica Grabert and I have decided to join forces on the greatest mixtape ever created. Yesterday, we took a little field trip to Staples and loaded up on Post It Notes. Then we took meticulous, irreverent and sometimes pointless musings and wrote them down throughout the day on said little yellow pads of paper ... read more |
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It’s four a.m. and I’ve just finished three never-ending episodes of Freaks and Geeks. I wouldn’t have even been awake, nay, I shouldn’t be awake, but the cacophony of noise emitting from the surrounding walls dissolves into a wail or groan that I block out with my own bit of noise. At least in my head, I’m doing the world poetic justice by throwing on some Sly or Harrison to block out synthetic base from contemporary rap songs and cries of “Chug it” ... read more |
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Singer-songwriter Paul Simon is the epitome of cool. He married Princess Leia, wrote some awesome music and appeared in one of my favorite Saturday Night Live sketches of all time: One-on-one vs Connie Hawkins. It only makes sense he would eventually get his own series of tribute shows ... read more |
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