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Andy Shauf What I’ve been missing most lately is the House of Softcore house shows. A year has washed away the bad memories of cleaning, hosting, struggling to pay touring artists, dealing with people trying to flip guests cars, late work nights, people not showing up for amazing acts, rearranging furniture, pissed off neighbors, and [...]
Mer de Blanc’s music on Bandcamp is tagged with American Football, 90′s, and Explosions in the Sky. When it comes to melodic guitar lines they seem to channel the same melodic guitar harmonies found in Owen’s music, with less focus on vocals, much like late 90′s indie rock did. Younger generations may look upon these [...]
With the NCAA tournament just finishing up and March Madness coming to a close this week with Kentucky being crowned the national champion, let us think back to 2010. Duke was making a run at the title, while at the same time Butler wore Cinderella’s magical dancing shoe straight through the sweet 16, into the [...]
When it comes to listening to music I don’t differentiate between whether a band is from the northwest corner of Washington state or whether they are from Greenville, SC. Good music made in Chapel Hill or Athens sounds the same as good music made in Charleston or Florence. For some reason people are fixated on [...]
Early on I loved Dawn Shredder for being clever and charming. Then they grew up. Added a bass player and a cellist and became witty and charismatic. Those are pretty much the same thing, but where Can’t Kids really surprised me was by going into a studio to record their first full length. Everything prior [...]



