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  • This Week On Paste: Loomis Basin Swetzer Pale Ale

    First things first: “Loomis Basin Swetzer Pale Ale” is really fun to say. Go ahead and say it aloud three times. I’ll wait here. So the name is great, but how’s the beer? Give my review a read to learn more.

  • Writing’s Dead They Say (Long Live Write)

    The worst day of my writing life was attending a Kurt Vonnegut lecture entitled “How To Get A Job Like Mine.” Great title, right? I couldn’t wait for the big man to tell me the secrets to a successful writing career.

  • Tribal Seeds, Sacramento 09/06/14

    Tribal Seeds packed Sacramento’s Ace of Spades tonight, and I mean packed. There may have been some room left somewhere in the club, but if so I couldn’t find it. And the crowd was into it, too: young, old, white, black, everybody grooving to the band’s tasty blend of Cali Reggae. Were you there? Drop…

  • From The Stacks: Don Nedobeck’s Northwater Street Tavern Band-Moonlight, Milorganite, and You

    I own records that sound like shit. I own records that look like shit. This may be the only record in my stacks about shit.

  • Throw Beck Thursday: Are You The New Serial Killer Target?

    And even if so, does it actually matter? Thinking about risk and death. —- The September 2013 issue of The Atlantic features an outstanding piece by Hanna Rosin about a Craigslist killer who lured his victims to rural Ohio with the promise of free rent and the “job of a lifetime.” Rosin asserts that the…

  • April’s Picks: September 2014

    The great April is back with more new music for not so new ears. What did you find for you this this month? Let’s check it out:

  • This Week on Paste: Paste’s Favorite IPAs

      I am but one contributor in this list of tasty beers, but what did I pick? Give it a read, then give it a drink.

  • 188. Heads I Win Tails You Lose (Lord It’s Such A Crime)

    The Sunset Strip was the business long before the eighties. Name a classic rock band and they probably played the Whisky—Van Halen, The Doors, The Kinks, on and on. The Strip was such a scene in the sixties it even earned its own film, the cult classic Riot on the Sunset Strip.

  • From The Stacks: Carole King-Tapestry

    Carole King’s Tapestry is a classic, and one of the best selling albums of all time. This is not that album.

  • From The Stacks: Rockets – Self Titled/Turn Up The Radio

    What you’re looking at is a big collection of rock and roll footnotes.

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