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Noisy Vertigo - Twenty Years

The major record labels are still willing to pay a fortune to people who promise they’ll uncover the future of music for them. They promise access to a musical revolution. And they say that they’ll achieve this by bringing in new sounds or scouting the people who have…
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George Crotty - Inner Nature

Music centered around the electric guitar achieved tremendous success in the 20th Century. Its very best artists, almost without exception, were able to integrate unusual sounds and textures into their songs. They dared to bring styles such as jazz, American country, or…
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Backstrom (feat. Bart Topher) - Backstrom

There’s a reason why some of the great novelists don’t attempt to write their debut until they are well into their 50s. They need, at least, one great story to tell, and without having lived enough, there’s no reason to expect that a tale of this importance will just…
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The Ardvark Felon - Yes, There is Life... Baby!

What will it take to help you find yourself? For some, it’s religion; for others, a job. Still, most won’t ever get a chance to know the delight of belonging to something that seems to speak to their very essence.  A not-so-small number of lucky souls managed to find…
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Subway Rat - Stand Clear of the Closing Doors

What does indie-rock actually stand for? Unlike other styles of music, and unlike most other brands, it is not trying to sell you a single philosophy through one product. Cynics would claim that it’s a music genre strategically made to feel all-encompassing.  But…
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Subway Rat - Captain of the Football Team

The world loves a self-made millionaire. Observers of the music industry share in this fascination. The history of pop music is filled to the brim with characters who, using only their imagination and daringness, crafted tremendous careers for themselves. The world…
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Piglets DDeep Forest - DDeep in Time

As a wise man once said, the world is full of crashing bores. However, neither he nor anyone else could have imagined that so many of these dull folks would consider a career in music and flood the world with their lifeless, stale creation.  True eccentrics are a rare…
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Blake - Solomon's Tump

Most of us live our lives like kings, but we’re too busy complaining to really consider this. Even an average income in a country blessed with relative stability is enough to afford you the kinds of luxuries that fat, rich kings of the olden days, the ones convinced that…
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Blue Moondust - Blue Moondust EP

Debut records are a lot like arranging the coup, throwing over the existing government and making it just in time for the prime hour at the national television station. Just what’s your first message going to be? Tying up the old generals and getting the president to sign…