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From the Stacks: Alice Cooper – Raise Your Fist and Yell
Alice Cooper is responsible for some of the greatest album covers of all time: The School’s Out sleeve opened like an elementary schooler’s desk; From The Inside featured asylum doors that swung open. Thanks to a strategically placed finger, the original Love it to Death sleeve made the Controversial Album Covers gallery. And then there’s Raise Your…
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Deep Cuts: The World’s Worst Mix Tape
The lost art of the mix tape. Yeah, we have playlists now and YouTube, but it isn’t the same. A mix tape said something, in my case usually, “I’m a very desperate and horny kid, and this is what my idea of seductive sounds like.” Yes, and that was the downside of the mix tape. …
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On My Turntable: David Bowie – “Where Are We Now?”
The last thing I expected to wake up to this morning was a new David Bowie single. The Dame has been in musical seclusion since 2003’s Reality, and frankly I’d accepted that all we were going to get from now on were endless reissues of his catalog. But no, the old guy still has at…
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110. But I Just Wanna Stay in the Garage All Night
The morning after we graduated high school, Jarod and I mounted our bicycles and headed for Myrtle Beach. For me this was the second time crossing South Carolina via pedal power, but for Jarod this was his first. Not only that, it was no more than eight months since the motorcycle accident that crushed his…
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From the Stacks: Cold Blood
I discovered Cold Blood in a manner that must seem heretical to lead singer Lydia Pense’s diehard fans: I was in it for the Rick Griffin album cover. It’s a cool cover, but the real treat turned out to be inside.
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The (Kind Of) Complete Woodstock: Sly & the Family Stone
My daughter likes to ask me when and where I’d go if I could travel to any time and place. I always tell her I’m happy right where I am, but here’s my secret: If suddenly I possessed such an awesome superpower I’d likely piss it away to land in Bethel, New York around 3:30…
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Deep Cuts: The Best of Best Songs
You’ve been inundated with “best of” lists over the last couple of weeks, so how about one more? Below are the best songs about the best, or at least the best ones from my playlist, which probably isn’t the best.
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The Bottom Five Stories of 2012
“Hey, for New Year’s Eve why don’t you feature your five least read stories of 2012?” I have some sadistic readers, or at least one sadistic reader. The sad thing is that I liked the idea, so here they are. What went wrong? Who knows. I just write them and send them on their merry…
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From the Stacks: Lady Pank – Drop Everything
Here’s another record that I picked up a million years ago as a promo. From the cover the guys looked a little punky and they had funny names, so what the hell. It didn’t really grab me — seemed a little too poppy — so I stuck it in my stacks and forgot about it. …
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