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I’ve alluded several times to the Springsteen show I saw last weekend without going into detail. Well, after a long day working on grad school applications and watching my Royals lose the game deep into added time I’m finally ready … Continue reading →

I’ve admittedly been lax about posting this week. I don’t even have a good excuse, except that I’ve spent the last five or six days in a whirlwind of board games, Bruce Springsteen, Veronica Mars, and Thanksgiving feasting. So in … Continue reading →

I’ve got a lot of other stuff going on, so no time for a full post now, but let me just say that ZOMGS Bruce Springsteen’s live show completely lives up to the hype. Two hours and fifteen minutes of … Continue reading →

The Shout Out Louds are yet another band from the land of lutefisk, the welfare state, and Abba. But while most of the Swedish bands I talk about are focused primarily on bright and sunny pop music, these folks clearly … Continue reading →

Here it is, in all its glory: the 30 minute Two Towers, as written and performed by the Dartmouth Forensic Union and the Dartmouth Physics Department. That’s me as Gandalf, Faramir, a few random orcs, and the stunt double for … Continue reading →

I’ve got no time for the next few days to post, so I thought it would be a good idea to kick in the way-back machine and (re)mention an old favorite that most of you have probably never heard. The … Continue reading →

Earlier this year I confessed my love for “Like a Prayer,” and I’ve very recently developed a moderate music-crush on Lavender Diamond. Which means I was quite excited to see that they have undertaken a cover of the 80s classic … Continue reading →

One of my favorite (re)discoveries of last year was David Ford, who I had enjoyed as the lead man from Easyworld a few years back and who re-emerged from the woodwork with a very fine folk-driven record (including the absolutely … Continue reading →

Made a quick trip down to Boston this weekend to The Sinister Turns, a really great band I wrote about back in July, but who have been thoroughly under-represented by the rest of the blog world. C’mon people… Anatomy Assessment … Continue reading →

I usually cringe a little bit when people talk about 60s-inspired pop. Even though I love a lot of the music that actually created that genre, I find I have very little patience for the throwbacks. So I was a … Continue reading →