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Since I grow my music library by bouncing back and forth between decades and music styles, playing catch up on the music I’ve missed, I don’t really have a “Top 10 Albums of 2011″ (More…)
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Best of 2011 from TSOI writer Jbird (More…)
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Once again, the great releases of this year are roundly ignored by other ‘best-of’ music compilers – fools, one and all, but that is precisely why you come here. I am again mystified how some of these releases got such short shrift (More…)
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I recently discovered Austra when I came across the song “Lose It” and was immediately hooked. It’s one of those handful of songs that hit me right in my musical G-spot. The whole song is perfectly written and I listened to it like 30 times in a row the day I first heard it (More..)
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I’m pretty sure I’m the only person in America who is actually a fan of Men Without Hats. Other than the enduring “Safety Dance” most people don’t know any of their other songs, which is a shame, because they wrote some really good synth pop in the 80s (more…)
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Earlier this year I caught Peter Murphy at the Mayan here in Los Angeles. It was the first time I had ever been to that venue. It was also the first time I had ever caught Peter Murphy solo. As a long time Bauhaus et al. fan, it was never in the cards for me to see him solo before...