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The Long Lost MSTRs of the KRFT

March 17, 2009 – 10:30 am
When I walked out of the Best Buy at the Holyoke Mall at Ingleside on a weekend afternoon in 2001 with a copy of singer Res‘ debut album How I Do I had no idea I’d still be talking about it some seven years later. Yet and still, here I am doing just that. […]
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“You’re the Best, Around…” (El Keter’s Favorite Albums of 2008, Day Three)

January 5, 2009 – 10:30 am
  Out of all the records I enjoyed during 2008 I chose 20 of them as my favorites.  I put them all in alphabetical order and wrote about them.  Here are another five… Adorably precocious Swedish Indie-Pop chanteuse Lykke Li out-Feist-ed Canadian Indie-Folk femme Leslie Feist simply by being…well…more feisty. The nigh-unpronounceable newcomer’s initially self-released debut Youth Novels […]
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This Jookabox Has More Hits Than the Fonz’s

November 3, 2008 – 10:30 am
As much of a bummer as it is to admit, my All Hallows’ Eve was spent neither handing out nor stuffing my face with candy treats. No, the inner-city in the year 2008 just isn’t the most trick-or-treating-friendly locale. Instead, my Friday night activities included a lengthy conversation with my lady-friend about how […]
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Grotesqueries at Random, Vol. 72: Dead Boys/Cold Blood

October 31, 2008 – 10:30 am
Today is Halloween…A day maligned by some conspiratorial types as a vestigial remnant of humanity’s Satan-worshiping pre-Christian past at worst, or a superstitious backslide into paganism at best. That is if it’s not just another excuse for people to be afraid of every damn thing including terrorism, sexual predators, kidnappers, vandals, people putting foreign […]
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No Refund, Exchange Only

October 15, 2008 – 10:30 am
I confess, I’m confused as to the current status of Carolinian Hip-Hop crew Little Brother. They’re a group I’ve long championed. Me and Emeyesi broke their first single in our region via mixtape and late-night radio spins. And we burned the shit out of their debut LP, giving it extra-special attention after […]
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