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RSL Presents the Back and White Years, and I Survived Bonnarooooo
Hey y’all (get it, cause I just came from the south?), I’m back from Bonnaroo. The festival was amazing. Brilliant performances by the Felice Brothers, !!!, MIA, and more. Kanye incited the scorn of the free lovin’ people of the festival, Eddie Vedder got drunk, I scanned ticket stubs and saw a man mistake his […]
Listen To: Soltero’s You’re No Dream LP
If you’re going to front or be the sole member of an acoustic folk outfit then you need to either be absolutely prodigious (see: Dylan) or you need to have readily noticeable faults such as an oddly tuned voice (see: John Darnielle). Of course, you need other attributes like a sharp tongue, quick wits, and […]
Listen To: The Black and White Years
I hate the first (and only the first) twenty seconds of the Black and White Years’ S/T debut LP.
The swinging and fading studio effects combined with the slow electric bass remind me of a bad 311 or Incubus song. The first twenty seconds represent a frustrating lack of drive and purpose in the music […]
