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Nashville 2220: Number 007
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Loud Love Blog: The Lost Generation
We start thinking a lot about legacies and generations when we start getting older. What have we done that matters? What will we leave behind that gets remembered? The questions I'm pondering is what the hell is wrong with kids today?
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Music Business 2-Stroke: KEEP YOUR FANS FOCUSED ON THE BALL NOT THE BUZZING BUMBLE BEE
In an age of the dying album, many are still holding on. Artwork aesthetics still remain very important to some music enthusiasts. While it’s fun to look at your iTunes library in cover flow and see all the pretty pictures, it’s just not the…
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The Yah Mos Series Part 1: RIGHT ON! (Sunney Sindicut Records, 1993)
Get ready folks, because you're gonna be stuck with three reviews back-to-back of one of the craziest bands to come out of Sacramento in the last 20 years -- The Yah Mos. You might say “But Thomas, what about those funky and far out cats in…
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Loud Love Blog: Cooperative concert-going
Now that we’ve established Nashville as a city revered for it’s killer rock scene, we need to make sure that the crowds act like it. This is a strange situation here as — depending on the venue and who’s playing – you…
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The Copyrights/The Dopamines Split – Songs About Fucking Up (It’s Alive Records, 2009)
In recent years pop-punk has been bandied around incorrectly so much that its meaning, like emo, has been obfuscated by people who don't know that Lifetime is a melodic hardcore band, and there hasn't been a punk band of any sort on Fueled By Ramen…
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Loud Love Blog: In defense of vinyl
If you took anything away from our first two writings here at Sinizine.net, or if you're a long time listener/reader of Loud Love, you would know that we strongly believe in live music. We are lucky enough to live in a time and place where seeing…
Read moreOpinion: WRVU disappears along with regard for student experience
Here’s a question that’s been on my mind for years and burning hotter now that I’ve heard the news of the sale of 91.1 WRVU: Is the goal of a university to create a learning environment that allows for student experience and…
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Dag Nasty – Dag with Shawn
I'm a big fan of DC hardcore legends Dag Nasty. I'm sure I'm not the most diehard, but -- as they were one of the first hardcore bands (excluding standards like Black Flag, Minor Threat and Bad Brains who all punks in America seem to love) I ever…
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