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Leighton, IA Animal Collective - Water Curses EP
Back in February of 2007, I joined the RYM community. I would have never believed how much a web page could affect me. RYM and its users have introduced me...
Read Music Review London Impromptu disco
This song is Damian digging out his baby disco ball at about 1.30am and turning the lights off. As the multicoloured lights whirred around the room, he...
Read Memory Carrollton, TX Dismal, Afterschool.
Having no license to drive and nowhere to drive to, there I waited on a bench next to my high school's portacache for mum to come and do the daily pick...
Read Memory Memphis, TN A Beautiful Mess
I'm probably one of the better-known non-professional Replacements experts in the world, at least online, and it's a well-known fact that I "worship at...
Read Memory Memphis, TN Gabba Gabba Hey
I tend to throw this phrase around a lot when writing about music, I suppose, but this one is the real deal. This is where nothing was ever the same...
Read Memory Memphis, TN Stranger Everywhere You Go
I've gone through so many copies of The Damned's The Light at the End of the Tunnel now, both on cassette and CD, it's not even funny. If you're going to...
Read Memory Memphis, TN Why Don't You Believe
I guess most people will single out Nirvana or Pearl Jam as the epitome of the "grunge" era, and I won't exactly disagree - they, as well as some...
Read Memory Memphis, TN Not Deja Vu
R.E.M. was one of those bands that was almost like homeboys to those of us hanging around the indie music scene in Nashville in the early to mid-Eighties,...
Read Memory Memphis, TN Smells Like What?
It was around five in the morning and we were leaving Memphis and on the way to Kansas City, the boyfriend (now ex) and I, to see the Hoodoo Gurus in...
Read Memory Memphis, TN I Could Be Wrong
The boyfriend at the time spent about half of 1987 just south of Knoxville, Tennessee, while I stayed behind in Middle Tennessee. I used to go up there...
Read Memory Memphis, TN No New Tale to Tell
I've written before about my ex-boyfriend's obsession for a time, back when we were living together and had first moved down to Memphis, with reggae and how...
Read Memory Huntersville, NC If the world is ending, I'm...
Sometimes the names of places have nothing to do with the place itself. Tremont Music Hall was one of those places. When one thinks "music hall",...
Read Memory Greensboro, NC The End of the '90s
It was the summer of 1997. I was majorly psyched because I was 17 and finally going to go to a rock concert of bands that I actually liked. It took...
Read Memory Memphis, TN "Sunday Morning" ; on a...
Somehow, in the course of my rather extensive and self-propelled modern music education, I totally missed The Velvet Underground.Sure, I wasn't completely...
Read Memory Memphis, TN The Last
I finally got to see The Replacements live on the All Shook Down tour in 1991, having been a fan for years and years and missing them, for one reason or...
Read Memory Memphis, TN Defying Death at the Beach
Although I have been quite fortunate to have many close and "best friends" throughout life, Christopher was probably my all-time closest, very best...
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