Let’s Go A Little Gonzo
By AMANDA MONTGOMERY So here’s an honest confession: The 2012 Mayan Calendar and its prophetic, apocalyptic assumptions didn’t necessarily set off an alarm or raise a red flag for me. Texas summers bring their own intensity – so comparatively, a few ancient hellfire and brimstone showers sound almost charming. Alas, now past the halfway mark of 2012, an election looms…
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- posted at 9:50 am
- August 16, 2012
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Trying To Make Sense Of My Top Spotify Plays This Month
BY DOUG ZANGER Just browsing my Facebook page and I peeked at my top Spotify music for the month. If you’d like to keep score, the top albums came from (in order): Sun Kil Moon, Seal, Deadmau5, Best Relaxation Music (The Sleeping Baby one) and Prince. Kanye West was one of the top artists. This is the digital music equivalent…
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- posted at 6:08 pm
- July 12, 2012
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Underneath The Covers (aka 11 Songs That Should Never Be Covered)
BY COREY DUBROWA For as long as there has been pop music, there have been cover songs. (Both the Beatles and Stones started out as combos that versioned other people’s work, fer Chrissakes.) Anyone who has ever played in a band has spent at least a few quality moments thinking about, choosing — and then learning — other people’s music to interpret…
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