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Thursday, July 30, 2015

Iasc betta anseo

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D'imigh Caisaide go dti Prág le déanaí. Tá iasc "betta" aici. Mar sin, tá dith uainn chun bheatha é. Ní raibh mé a chot...
Tuesday, July 28, 2015

The Kinks' "Anthology: 1964-1971": Music Review

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My favorite period of the Kinks begins around 1966 and ends in 1971. So, I was eager to hear this. After their initial hits, a 1965 union...
Sunday, July 26, 2015

Opal's "Happy Nightmare Baby": Music Review

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For over three decades, David Roback crafts neo-psychedelia with a punch, and a sensuous sprawl. Best known for leading Mazzy Star, he co-f...
Friday, July 24, 2015

"Bedhead 1992-1998": Music Review

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I revisited this band by hearing these forty-five songs on the long highway between Amarillo and Tucumcari. The setting fit the mood. Thes...
Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Son Volt's "Trace": Music Review

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I asked the record store clerk what was playing, the fall of 1995. She answered with a mumble. "Some D...
Monday, July 20, 2015

Damon + Naomi's "Fortune": Music Review

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Their music grows more reflective as this couple mature. Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang, for over two decades, explore subdued moods on th...
Saturday, July 18, 2015

A bheith Gaeilge

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Scríobh Anna Hoffman faoi an dúshlán a shábháil ar ár teanga ársa. Duirt sí ina Huffington Post go raibh an lucht na Gaeilgoirí go ...
Thursday, July 16, 2015

The Chills' "BBC Sessions": Music Review

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This New Zealand indie band, one of the late-1980s standouts on the estimable Flying Nun label, arrived in London for three sessions with ...
Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Pale Saints' "The Comforts of Madness": Music Review

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The songs race along early on, in and out of the industrial moods and tape sounds. “Sea of Sounds” might have inspired Ride, with a mela...
Sunday, July 12, 2015

Brian Jonestown Massacre's "Musique de la film imaginé": Music Review

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As the membership of this band dwindles to frontman and founder Anton Newcombe and whomever he hires, the music lowers its volume. No trac...
Friday, July 10, 2015

Brian Jonestown Massacre's "Methodrone": Music Review

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 Although over 40 different members passed through The Brian Jonestown Massacre, the core of the band remains singer-guitarist Anton Newc...
Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Buzzcocks' "The Way": Music Review

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Nearly four decades on, can a punk band offer inspiration to not only those who were raised with them, but those who never caught them at...
Monday, July 6, 2015

Fawn Spots' "From Safer Place": Music Review

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This band's name conjures up freak folk, or gently plucked melodies in spring meadows. Recorded and engineered by this York, England, ...
Saturday, July 4, 2015

"10 000 Russos": Music Review

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This Portuguese trio continues the promise of Fuzz Club labelmates Sonic Jesus. Like their Neither Virtue Nor Anger earlier this year, the...
Thursday, July 2, 2015

Sonic Jesus' "Neither Virtue nor Anger": Music Review

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Imagine a double album full of some of your favorite bands from the past fifty years. The first disc revives the metallic depths of early ...
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John L. Murphy / "Fionnchú"
Los Angeles, California, United States
Medievalist turned humanities professor; unrepentant but not unskeptical Fenian; overconfident accumulator of books & music; overcurious seeker of trivia, quadrivia, esoterica. Born in Los Angeles but should have been born in my parental Ireland. Eclectic music, reading, ideas-- often Celtic and/or medievally oriented. Tá Gaeilge a chuid feín dom faoi láthair, ach nílim cainteoir líofacht fós! Dw i'n dysgu Cymraeg tipyn nefa'.
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