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Is there anyone out there not from Portland?
I’ve read about SxSW ad nauseum today and can read no more about it. One of the bands that’s getting pretty much universal praise after the goings on in Austin is Portland’s Blitzen Trapper. I’m not...
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MP3s of the Week: Anticipating Gordon Lightfoot
There are some bands that just shouldn’t make a comeback, beautifully illustrated by the recent release of The B-52s’ “Funplex” – their first original album in nearly two decades. There’s nothing wrong...
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Aluminum, tastes like fear
When I was a younger man I lived in Athens, Georgia and worked behind the counter of a popular coffee house. It was a wonderful job because built into it was the opportunity to meet and chat with the...
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Z’s Music Monday: Get pissed, destroyyyy…
It was not my intent to open the Pandora’s box of punk rock for young Z over breakfast on Sunday morning. In the gamut of kid’s music, punk has some things going for it – loud, simple chord structure...
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MP3s of the Week: Athens and points west…and north…
A couple of bands from my old home of Athens, Georgia have been on repeat on A Free Man’s iPod this week and I’d like to kick things off with them. First is Dead Confederate, a five piece that may be...
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Deep South Smack Talk: Florida Hate Week Edition
Well, there have been a lot of strong words and emotions thrown around in these Deep South Smack Talk posts this year. We’ve had Alex call the Dawgs “Pop Warner wanna-be’s” and The Vol Abroad question...
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Falling out the window, tripping on a wrinkle
Dr. O’C and I have to find a new place to live. Our lease is up and we’ve decided to rent for a little while longer in the hopes that the remarkably stable Australian housing market bottoms out like it...
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Little boy, she’s from the street
I like themes and, inadvertantly, this week seems to have developed into ‘Moronic Debauchery of Yore Week’, subtitled ‘Great Figures in Twentieth Century American Literature’. Who am I to buck a theme....
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