Courtesy of Captured Tracks.With the ping pong tables pushed aside and the aroma of their famous “smoky” mushroom, mozzarella, bacon, and onion pizza permeating throughout the room, Comet Ping Pong welcomed local indie-pop band The Sea Life and alternative...
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Homemade: Nashville
Courtesy of TripAdvisor. Home of the Grand Ole Opry, Music Row and other legendary institutions, Nashville is known by many as Music City, U.S.A. As a city teeming with fresh talent, it's overflowing with various labels, venues and artists, and while it may be...
Pop Exodus: So, You’re Writing a Thesis about Pop Music?
Courtesy of The Independent. Instead of actually writing the first 10 pages of my thesis due this week, I decided I would just write about writing about it as a bizarre act of masochism. When you're a literature major, you have a year to write a 25+...
Feedback: Melodic Mongolian Folk Metal
No matter how cruel the world is, you are always by my side. Every "tough" metalhead has a very sweet loving heart Û_ pic.twitter.com/mCRp6gNjus— Tengger Cavalry (@tenggercavalry) February 14, 2015 Mongolia's rich roots of conquest and constant, often...
The Tough Crowd: Goodwill Goodies
Courtesy of World In Photo.The Store The most underrated place in the world to get vinyl has got to be Goodwill. Really, any thrift store carrying mostly musty grandpa sweaters and old shoes will oftentimes have one lonely box of records right under the VHS...
Zen Palette: Artists to Know – David Stewart
Courtesy of David Stewart's Facebook. I've been listening to David Stewart ever since I found his collaborative EP Dark Side of Paradise with Sango, released in 2012. Since then, I've been anxiously waiting to hear more from this young Londoner. If you dig the...
Porque no los Dos: Paquita’s Journey
Courtesy of NPR. Does a memory ever come back to you so faintly and broken into such undecipherable pieces that it becomes hard to tell if it was a dream or an actual occurrence? I have this very faint memory (or dream) that I am in a restaurant with...
The Current: David’s Songs
Courtesy of New York Times.When I first picked current events as the theme of my column it seemed rather simple. Just talk...
Coo Coo Ca Choo: Old Meets New – First Aid Kit and Simon & Garfunkel
Courtesy of Glide Magazine.It's very rare that I stumble upon covers of classic songs that I enjoy, let alone take time to write about. I'm especially skeptical when I come across covers of my favorite tracks.My readers should know by now the extent...
Feedback: So Much for Metal in the Media – Tenacious D’s Win at the Grammys
Courtesy of The Grammys.Jack Black may have won his biggest award yet when his comedy duo Tenacious D took away the Grammy for best metal performance. The apt comparison many have made is giving Weird Al the award for best rap performance. Any writer...