The sweaty lump of a man picked himself up off the floor and stumbled to the front of the stage, hovering over the congregation below ‘I know it’s a lie, but I still give my love’. This man was a killer. Having just bludgeoned his guitar to death after confessing his part in the murder
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Après moi le deluge translates to ‘after me comes the flood’ and can be traced back to the King of France, Louis XV (1710-1744), but when Peter Gabriel uttered those words from the stage at Red Rocks on Monday night during his cover of Regina Spektor’s Après Moi, it felt more like a prediction. On
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‘The other band died in a terrible crash, so you’re stuck with us. We will cover all their stuff, but first we are going to do our own material. We are Wise Blood and you might hate this!’ Not the most assuring introduction from Houston’s relatively unknown Christopher Laufman and his electronic/hip-hop/house project. The clean
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Where did you spend the last night on Earth? I spent it with a couple hundred lucky souls at the Doug Fir Lounge in Portland, OR. This venue could be Austin Power’s ski lodge, but last night it was home to a 22-year old musician from London. James Blake has been making huge waves in
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Monday night was somewhat of a test for me. Would I be able to put my age and experience aside and enjoy a metal show headlined by one of the best thrash bands of my youth? A band with a lineup that cannot even pretend to be the same as when I last saw them
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Under normal circumstances, this is not a show I would have attended. Portugal. The Man is one of those bands that I enjoy well enough and I would even go as far as saying I really liked 2009‘s The Satanic Satanist, but they arn’t a band I would go out of my way to see
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Sarena is my sister, or as her niece likes to point out, my ‘blood sister’. She is a little white girl and she sings the blues like she is a big black girl. I have been listening to Sarena sing for around 28 years now. It started out with country tunes such as Ricky Skaggs‘
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TV on the Radio suffered a great loss when bassist Gerard Smith died of cancer last month. Even though Smith wasn’t on the current Nine Types of Light Tour, he was a big contributor to the album and a close friend to everyone in the band. So it only made sense when they cancelled a
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It had been well over a year since I’d been to a hip-hop show. Sure, I’d seen hip-hop acts at festivals, but the last true hip-hop show I attended was the P.O.S., Dessa, Grieves show back in February of last year. It’s not that I don’t like hip-hop, it’s just that I have been burned
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Before starting this review I decided to go back and check out the review I wrote the first time I saw Between the Buried and Me back in January of last year. I wanted to make sure I wasn’t repeating myself or anything. Turns out I didn’t have much to say back then, in fact
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