Rock – Coryphe

#88 – Tame Impala

Alright, so as I was on the matter already, let’s take another look at that contemplation from my last post: early, raw, unrefined emotional talent or later, unkinked, smoothed-out production? Unfettered creativity vs. honed skill? And for a more exaggerated take: Stick to your guns and die in honest obscurity, or sell out and play…
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#87 – Car Seat Headrest

I read somewhere that Car Seat Headrest fans are the kind of people that get pushed into lockers by Weezer fans. That’s kinda funny, because while Weezer is not known to win on jock-factor, Car Seat Headrest might have taken semi-depressed juvenile wit to a whole other level. Will Toledo started the band as a…
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#84 – Simon & Garfunkel

We are about halfway through the month, and my upper lip is giving strong “first mustache attempt at fifteen” vibes. It’s November and with that, for me, it’s also Movember. For a number of years now, I have been joining men worldwide, who undergo a clean shave on November first, and then grow just their…
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#81 – James Blunt

Alright, everyone, the time has come. It’s all been fun and games so far, but I think today we need to breach a topic that I have been thinking about for a while. Presumably, you have at the very least tangentially come across it – more likely, you have pondered the question yourself in some…
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#80 – boygenius

There are bad bands, ok bands, good bands – definitely some super bands out there. Which, however, are not to be confused with supergroups. Those, in turn, can also be anywhere on the spectrum from bad to super (and beyond – I mean, feel free to make your own scale). While a super band will…
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#78 – Destroyer

Dan Bejar is a curious figure. Largely self-taught, he’s been making music since the mid-’90s, yet even now, he occasionally resists calling himself an artist. He views his albums not as collections of songs but as novels, places, or movies, and his body of work shifts in style with each release while retaining a distinctive…
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#77 – The Decemberists

The year is 1921 (a year prior to the Soviet Union being founded) and, in a place then called Leningrad, the Institute of Plant Industry is established. The set goal: research plant genetics, create better crops, and guarantee more fruitful and resilient harvests by means of Science. In the young Union of Soviet Socialist Republics…
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#51 – Brandon Flowers

Now, we can watch the live stream and tell ourselves that, really, Vegas is a capitalist hellscape not worth the 14-hour flight for three days of jetlag-muddied exhaustion… But a comparative look at the weather forecast or stumbling over friends’ Instagram posts might have the potential for leaving us a bit uneasy – FOMO, I…
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#50 – Paul McCartney & Wings

There are many great things about music. One of the things that I enjoy particularly is that there is just so much of it. The sheer volume, not only of new stuff coming out, but also from decades and decades of backlog, is hard to fathom. It means we all get a chance to constantly…
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