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Dissected: Jimmy Eat World (with Jim Adkins)
On multiple occasions during the anatomizing of this Dissected, I heard comments like, “Aren’t they just some band from the 90s?”, “Oh, are they making a comeback?”. It’s like non-fans are under the...
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U2′s Zooropa re-imagined as a zoological chart!
In 1993, U2 set out to make an EP which wound up becoming a full-blown album. This would be but a brief blip in music history had it not taken place so closely to the release of their seminal 1991...
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I haven’t seen Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, the new musical from the combined efforts of Stephen King and John Mellencamp. But I have heard the folk and country that build up its soundtrack. An...
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Twenty Pearl Jam Songs We Wanna Hear at Wrigley Field
When Pearl Jam visits the Friendly Confines of Wrigley Field on Friday night, they won’t just be entering Cubbyland. They’ll be in Consequence of Sound country, too. With our office only a Gossard’s...
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The Kids in the Hall’s Top 20 Sketches
That familiar bassline, those black-and-white shots of Toronto’s city streets, the blurry faces of daily locals doing their daily tasks, and then pops up Dave Foley or Bruce McCulloch or Scott...
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Homerpalooza Revisited: 10 New Musical Guests for The Simpsons
I require a momentary pause before answering the question “How old are you?” And yet, flip on a rerun of The Simpsons and I can quote, line for line, every character interaction over a 22 minute...
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Dissected: The Replacements
This wasn’t supposed to happen: The Replacements reuniting. The idea of such a reunion had been whispered about for years, pined over by the lowliest sap in the grungiest alley in the worst city on...
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Belle and Sebastian: 12 Great Songs and Stories
Stuart Murdoch’s Glasgow band started off as a college project, with Murdoch turning in the first Belle and Sebastian record, 1996′s Tigermilk, as his finished assignment. While he found himself...
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Top 10 Albums by Seasoned Veteran Acts
During a meeting with Ryan Bray and Matt Melis to discuss and review Pearl Jam’s latest album, Lightning Bolt, I said: “if [Pearl Jam] can still put out a good album, and tour behind that album, and I...
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Reunion of the Year: The Replacements
Artwork by Steven Fiche Allow me to get personal. Again. There are a number of reasons why I’ll always remember Sunday, August 25th, 2013. The people I met, the miles I traveled, and the feelings that...
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