Month: December 2014
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Nick Kent – Apathy for the Devil
The Dark Stuff is a book that self-respecting music geeks own a copy of. Apathy for the Devil is the other side of the story. Pretty much every self-respecting music geek I know has a copy of Nick Kent’s The Dark Stuff on their shelf. It’s a time capsule of mostly 70s music journalism that…
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Kimm Rogers – Where the Pavement Grows
Writer Robert Barry Francos looks at the latest album from an old favourite of his: Where the Pavement Grows, from curly-haired LA songstress Kimm Rogers. I’m not sure how I first became aware of Kimm Rogers, but I know it was when her first Island Records release, Soundtrack of My Life, was out in 1990.…
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The Reunion of Ride and the Legacy of Shoegaze
With the Ride reunion announced for 2015, Mike Luce looks with love at Ride and some of the amazing Creation Records roster and shoegaze genre. Up until the past year, if someone told me that I would see Slowdive perform, I would have laughed. I live in Thunder Bay and it never occurred to me…