Category: Music
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Slipknot what you can do for your country…
This is from a text written to a friend that i DIDN’t SEND BECAUSE IT FELT MORE APPROPRIATE AS A BLOG POST. My friend sent me a link to the very first SlipKnot album the other day and it’s a pretty remarkably singular and unique artefact of proto-nuMetal; a fully formed concept album about a…
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Electricity
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A Guide to Ariel Pink
Note: This was a very helpful guide sent to me earlier this morning which covers most if not all of Ariel Pink’s discography (including adjacent bands he has collaborated with). I very much appreciate the Note from my friend and have re-posted it here with her blessing. If you like AP yourself, consider giving her…
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re: Johnny B Goode (/mu/ – circa ~2019?)
Unfortunately looking for that mean-sounding, high energy rock is kind of a wild goose chase. A lot of early rock performers have the songs but there’s not one record I can point to. Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis all made compelling rock music during their tenure at Sun Records, but…