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25 Jul 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
I needed to hear this today. I have seen too many creeps online come out of the metaphorical woodwork. The banhammer has been overused and my "blocked" list has grown substantially, but they just keep coming and I have grown tired of antisocial media...
25 Jul 2021 3 minute read 0 comments jozefkrichards
The deep, gravelly voice of Barry White is unmistakable and "soul" is a more than appropriate genre label for what he could do behind the microphone. He was a force, of an intimidating size, but a gentle giant and a crooner when it came to his music,...
23 Jul 2021 5 minute read 1 comment jozefkrichards
In 2009, North Carolina native Stuart McLamb took the novel approach of releasing an album first and forming a band second and the result has been a decade-and-counting of top tier indie rock. The Love Language is my favorite band from what I conside...
21 Jul 2021 5 minute read 0 comments jozefkrichards
Public Enemy is an enemy only to ignorance. Their music is more than something enjoyable to listen to, it's an education, and the themes and ideas presented on their albums take excellent mixes and killer deliveries and elevate them to legendary stat...
19 Jul 2021 7 minute read 4 comments jozefkrichards
John Lennon is my favorite singer. He belted some of rock and roll's best vocals ever put to record, while simultaneously delivering some of the most touching, powerful, thought-provoking ballads ever written as well. His music influenced and inspire...
18 Jul 2021 2 minute read 0 comments HexylManray
The definition of Hexyl is: “any of various isomeric alkyl radicals C6H13− derived from hexane”. What is Hexane? Hexane is a chemical commonly extracted from petroleum and crude oil. It is a colorless liquid that gives off a subtle, gasoline-like odo...
18 Jul 2021 7 minute read 0 comments jozefkrichards
A great innovator and distinctly talented producer of early rock and roll, it is a disappointing fact that Phil Spector became something of a monster in his personal relationships over the years. In spite of that reality, some of the finest musicians...
17 Jul 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Today is the 10-year anniversary of the release of Broken Bird. Conceived as a spoken-word album (thus the title, which rhymes with "spoken word"), it had other ideas for itself, and morphed into an album about being a broken bird. During recording...
17 Jul 2021 6 minute read 2 comments jozefkrichards
The quiet Beatle loudly debuted his triple LP, All Things Must Pass, as a solo artist in 1970 to great acclaim and went on to create an impressive body of work up to his death in 2001 that rivals any of his band mate's. George was spiritual, sensitiv...
15 Jul 2021 7 minute read 1 comment jozefkrichards
One of the most exemplary musicians of our time, Paul McCartney was far from done when The Beatles called it quits in 1969 and has went on to build one of the most impressive bodies of work in rock and roll history. I have been fortunate enough to se...
