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Album Review: Ending People’s Fill Your Lungs
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Cool Story, Pro is the second instrumental mixtape from the Philadelphia, PA-based producer Small Professor. From listening to the roughly 45 minute mixtape, you’ll hear that Small Professor specializes in the soulful and cinematic production […]
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Mute Records and Spoon Records recently announced that they will be releasing a 5 LP Box set of legendary German rock band CAN‘s Lost Tapes on 180g vinyl. But like many other box sets, there’s a rather […]
Album Review: Each Other’s Heavily Spaced EP
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As I mentioned in a previous post, the other day was Chuck Berry’s 86th birthday, and in honor of the rock legend’s birthday, check out this great live footage of Berry playing “My Ding-A-Live” in […]