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Throwback Review: You better go back and Check Your Head
November 19, 2012The Beastie Boy's third album is some of their best, most eclectic music By Colin O'Neil 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…
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Throwback Review: The old days of jazz
November 13, 2012Wes Montgomery's Smoking at the Half Note deserves to be dusted off. By Colin O'Neil 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,…
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Album review: Here by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
June 18, 2012By Colin O'Neil 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…
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Mean Sun by Brasstronaut
May 21, 2012By Colin O'Neil 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…
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