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12/19/2022

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05/14/2022

New Fishbone album is being produce by Fat Mike of NOFX infamy!

Another day done with Big … 📸 and engineer .audio …caption this photo.

08/30/2021

R.I.P. Scratch, thank you for your service

“Please do not consider the amount of herbs involved excessive,” the reggae legend wrote. “Master PAUL McCARTNEY’s intentions are positive”

05/12/2021

What do you think about this year’s Hall of Fame cut?

Solid (finally after 17 years in Susan Lucci hell no one is happier than me to NOT have to come up w a new dissertation on why we gotta get in this year——NOW the hip hop floodgates can open!)

03/27/2021

What’s your favorite Neutral Milk Hotel song?

Tyler Clark explains how a little mystery helps preserve the magic of an album like Neutral Milk Hotel's On Avery Island.

03/23/2021

03/13/2021

What’s your favorite Radiohead album?

Radiohead released their sophomore album The Bends on this day in 1995.

Like its predecessor, The Bends is still preoccupied with angst and disorientation, but on a larger scale that turns the spotlight away from Yorke’s personal troubles towards something more global and cryptic: poverty, white-collar discontent, and alienation all get their due. The amped up complexity doesn’t just come from a more experienced worldview either, but an expanded musical palette. The sonic heaviness feels sincere, which means the emotional heaviness does, too, giving the album more stakes, more weight, more oomph.

Find out where this LP places on our definitive ranking of every Radiohead album: http://cos.lv/YE7630rAwVu

03/10/2021

What was the last Cassette Tape you bought? RIP Lou Ottens

Engineer at Philips also involved in developing compact disc technology