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- Bill Lipold
- February 10, 2013
The History of Apple Pie
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Marshall Teller Records
The English band of fuzz-popsters, know awkwardly as The History of Apple Pie, share a love of '90s power pop singles with compatriots Yuck. Members from both bands even have a side-project, Parakeet. The History of Apple Pie also have influential admirers, like guitarist, Joshua Third,...
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- Bill Lipold
- January 15, 2013
Grunge OGs, Mudhoney have never gone away. They've been slinging sludge for Sub Pop Records since the very beginning of grunge. And if one were to ask, let's say, Thurston Moore, or Yo La Tengo, perhaps that's why they don't get the same adulation as the '90s bands who left the spotlight for a decade or more only to return for a reunion tour.
"The Only Son of the Widow of Nain," is not going to result in a new era of Mud...
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- Bill Lipold
- January 3, 2013
Internet culture is a failure. While everyone was busy making lists and photo galleries and then clicking on everyone else's lists and photo galleries, a small Chicago punk label called Trouble in Mind records released a 7" by this new band called Fuzz shortly before the Christmas holiday. Being a small punk label, they cheekily introduced their new signing as a group of unknowns who had approached them with an unsolicited email....
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- Bill Lipold
- November 14, 2012
Excuse me while I play old. You see, back in the day, it was easy to judge a band by its name. For example, there was the geography rule. Any band named after a common city, state, country, or geographic location universally sucked. Kansas sucked. Asia sucked. Boston, Chicago, and Europe all sucked.
Recently, I've found the awkward spelling and mangled punctuation rule a good one, too. tUnE-yArDs is the best example of this rule i...
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