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Mid-Week Punk Rock & Stoner Metal

How to be a punk/rock band that wins my heart?  Let Titus Andronicus enlighten you: Have a raspy-voiced (sexy!) lead vocalist/guitarist who cites Simone de Beauvoir, bell hooks, and other feminists as embodying the original punk ethos Have an adorable, … Continue reading

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Shaky Knees Music Festival Wrap-Up

Congratulations to the Shaky Knees organization, the Masquerade, and all of musicians, vendors, and other event planners, participants, coordinators, and staff for pulling together an outstanding first run of what will hopefully be many more Shaky Knees weekends to come. … Continue reading

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Top 10 Regional Live Performances of 2012

As with all of my “Best of 2012” lists, I had to make some arbitrary rules for selecting my favorite regional live performances of 2012, particularly with respect to deciding what would constitute a “regional” act.  As indicated below, a … Continue reading

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Top 25 Hard Rock/Metal Songs of 2012 (#11 – 15)

Day #3 of my top 25 hard rock/metal songs of 2012!  We’re taking on #15 – 19 today; you can check out round 1 (#21 – 25) and round 2 (#16 – 20) of the five-part list as well. 15.  … Continue reading

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Top 25 Hard Rock/Metal Songs of 2012 (#25 – 21)

I had a difficult enough time restricting myself to only the Top 10 albums of the year; there was no way I could choose only 10 songs.  Instead, I’m going with the my personal favorite Top 25 Best Hard Rock … Continue reading

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Badass Blazers

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!  I couldn’t have asked for a better day – Friendsgiving with a group of about 8 of my favorite people in Atlanta.  Those with culinary talents among the group put together an amazing … Continue reading

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Weekend Wrap-Up & Links

I am officially the owner of this beauty! It’s my Epiphone Les Paul electric in heritage cherry sunburst!  Squeeee! I could’ve spent half the day in the high-end guitars section of the store.  If I were still a lawyer, I … Continue reading

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Metal, Bluegrass, Country, & Links

I’m coming off three outstanding nights of live music! Wednesday night was Converge, who are touring to promote their new album All We Love We Leave Behind, which as I may have repeatedly mentioned kicks asssssssss.  I purchased my ticket … Continue reading

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