Today was one of those “I hate my life” days, but since I came home from work things are slowly turning around. Maybe a little Sunday Mix Tape will help sooth my…
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Frontier – Heater
You know what this page hasn’t featured in a long time? A genre-melding rock band from Chicago. Frontier (guitarist Steven Wessley, bassist Kevin Ireland, drummer Michael Tsouios) formed in the early nineties,…
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The Top Ten Worst Classical Composers Of All Time
I thought about writing a top ten list of the ten worst albums of 2009 (January-to-June) this week, but decided against it when I realized that there were way too many albums…
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The Distinguished Gourmand: Mission Cantina
Cue the temporarily non-ironic ’80s nostalgia kick — now on steroids! — where people actually pretend they were “moved” by songs like “Bad” and “Thriller” as children in 3…2…1. Let’s not forget…
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High Tide – Sea Shanties
From Julian Cope’s Head Heritage, as written by The Seth Man “‘High Tide’ is putting it lightly: it’s an extremely apt description of where this group’s muse was at when they recorded…
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The First Annual East Los Angeles Pizza-Off
Photos by Gary Mecija It all started with a simple top ten list. Now many months later it was finally put to the thest. After several botched attempts and weeks of poor…
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Jr And His Soulettes – Psychodelic Sounds
This is one of those rare LPs that you usually only see once in a lifetime. It’s been repressed and bootlegged and made available on CD, but to find an original is…
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Softball Review: Los Nuevos Expos 14 – Bunch Of Guys 15
Here’s the recap for last Thursday’s heartbreaking loss. In the bottom of the final inning, Bunch Of Guys beat us on a walk-off one-out double. It stung. Top 1: Nate K’s one…
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Arcwelder / Shellac @ Echoplex; Los Angeles, CA
The first time I saw Shellac in 2002, I decided that I would never miss their live show again. Since then I have kept that promise to myself. On Saturday the band…
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Sunday Mix Tape Number 149
In case you’ve forgotten, today is the longest day of the year. That doesn’t mean it just feels like the longest day of the year, but that it is the day with…