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T:BA Day 5 | Don’t Blow It

The Blow is a girl making up girls with another girl. At least that’s what I gathered from last night’s performance We Put It Together So We Could Take It Apart. Melissa Dyne seems to be an important source of inspiration for Khaela Maricich as they interact entirely from the voice of Khaela. Set upon […]

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The Residents 40th Anniversary or “How I Discovered The Avant Garde”

During the summer of 2003, I was working retail at The Salvation Army full-time, in The Valley, Los Angeles area–more specifically Sun Valley–at 8232 Sunland Blvd where today there appears to be a busted out smoke shop. I had just recently graduated Sound Master Audio/Video Institute in North Hollywood, where today a high-rise apartment building […]

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In Between Thom Yorke and Justin Timberlake

February 25th was the release date for Amok, the debut album from Atoms for Peace. This group is rooted with front man Thom Yorke’s first solo album—a departure from the immensely well-reputed Radiohead that he also fronts. So in many respects, it’s actually a follow up album to Eraser (2006). But now it’s collaborative, including […]