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Throwback Review: You better go back and Check Your Head

Colin O'Neil November 19, 2012

The Beastie Boy's third album is some of their best, most eclectic music If you still think the Beastie Boys were only about “You gotta fight for your right to party!” and “Brass monkey, that funky monkey,” you better go take another look, lest you get chewed out by someone like me at a party. Check Your Head, the Beasties’ third offering from way back in 1992, is most definitely their best. Sure, you may only recognize one song from the back of the album, but when you put that shit on, you’ll see. It’s an album I struggle to…

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Throwback Review: The old days of jazz

Colin O'Neil November 13, 2012

Wes Montgomery's Smoking at the Half Note deserves to be dusted off. In June of 1965, Wes Montgomery and the backing band of Miles Davis recorded a show at New York City’s jazz club, The Half Note, and subsequently released…

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Album review: Here by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

Colin O'Neil June 18, 2012

Here crafts a childlike ode to a life of peace Here it is: the chaotic musical circus that is Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros has followed up on their breakthrough debut with Here. Led by frontman and founder Alex…

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Mean Sun by Brasstronaut

Colin O'Neil May 21, 2012

Brasstronaut’s crowdsource-enabled sophomore offering presents a lush audioscape Vancouver band Brasstronaut released their second full-length album Mean Sun last Tuesday, giving fans another dose of their melodic tones, far-away vibrations, and perhaps an insight into the future of survival as…

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