May 2010
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Starter Guide: Talk Talk
If you were to sample from both ends of Talk Talk’s catalogue, you would be hard pressed to find evidence that the work was in fact created by the same band. For many, it is the early hits that kept the band from complete obscurity within mainstream music, originally seen by many as another band riding on the wave of success created by fellow synthpop acts of the time. As brilliant and as...
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Independent Music Discoveries: Issue #32
Richey Hackett - Alternative / Pop / Rock - Midlands, UK An independent artist in every sense of the term - Richey Hackett (who I encountered through Forever Delayed, like Captain Polaroid who was covered in Issue #20) handles all of the songwriting, instrumentation, vocals, recording, and producing of his works, and has somehow been flying under the radar since 2007. Vulpiano Records is, proudly,...
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The Future of A Future in Noise
If you’ve been following this music blog for awhile now or dug around through the archives at any rate, you’d probably noticed a tapering off of posting gradually just this year. My life has become a bit chaotic, with moving (finally moving into the house in San Francisco in the next couple of weeks), my mom’s health battles, being overseas in the UK for awhile, plus I’ve...