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Songs of Wanderlust by The Ram

It’s all fine and good to imagine that the world will consider you a rockstar if you get a guitar and learn how to play it. It’s a whole other thing to start believing that the world won’t ever make sense, and that you won’t ever get to fully engage with it unless…
7.8
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Shake Your Bones: Cuvier and Ben Cutler Reviewed

Ben Cutler – Break the Ice Similar artists: Blackberry Smoke, The Black Keys, The Rolling Stones Genre: Classic Rock, Garage Rock, Alternative Rock “There’s more than one way to skin a cat.” That’s a phrase that undoubtedly has rung out of the office…
7.5
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Rebels for Hire: The Heavy North and Shady Oaks Reviewed

Shady Oaks – MAD Shady Oaks are the kind of band that hopes to drag everything that’s wrong, bad, and dangerous to know about rock n’ roll and bring it screaming to the attention of modern audiences.  There was a time when many people would just accept the…
7.5
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The BJ Bevy and Jeff Washington Reviewed

Jeff Washington – Goodbye Mr. Beck Similar artists: Jeff Beck Genre: Blues, Jazz Fusion There haven’t been a lot of guitarists throughout history who could simply touch a six-string and make it ring out in an entirely unique way. Jeff Beck was one of those…
7.8
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Call me old fashioned: Damon Smith and Lapdog

Lapdog – The Demon Similar artists: Grateful Dead, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Mac DeMarco, Good Morning, Babe Rainbow Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Lo-fi Rock, Garage Rock Lapdog takes a queue from the psychedelically-tinged modern guitar bands and…