CD review:Rooftop Revolutionaries, Resolute

[new music] Rooftop Revolutionaries, Resolute Tweet Heavy Metal Protest Music For The Occupy Generation reviewed by Reviewer Rob Heavy metal is alive and this is some for the Occupy generation, rock and roll protest music for pissed off citizens that have a right to be heard. Back in the 60’s lots of bands got on the anti-war wagon and made […]

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new music: TRILINGUAL ep

[New Music Review] Trails and Ways Trilingual EP Tweet Self-Released, 2013 Review by Kent Manthie Oakland-based indie delights Trails and Ways have just released Trilingual, an EP that this Bay Area quartet recorded on their own, with no label support, in a collective “house”-cum-studio in Oak-town, called T. Rex Manor. The four of them, two guys and two gals, Keith […]

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Man or Astroman? Defcon 5

[New Music] Man or Astroman? Defcon 5 Tweet 5, 4, 3, 2, 1… Communicating Vessels Review by Kent Manthie After TWELVE long years of absence, the space-surf-punk trio, Man or Astroman? Have finally reunited – at first it was to play a few reunion gigs and soon turned into a full-fledged comeback. The new album, with the original three members, […]

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Meet Matt Strachota, Y’alt-Country Rocker, Anti-Statist

[Interview] Matthew Strachota: “I’m An Anarchist!” Tweet Printed below is a Q&A taken from an IM exchange conducted recently via Facebook with Matt Strachota, formerly of Bartender’s Bible, a now split-up Americana y’alt-punk band in San Diego. His new band is Trailduster, also in the olde-timey Americana genre. They played in early July at The Black Cat bar in City […]

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Music Chronicle: Beatboxing

MC Generik’s History Of Beatboxing Tweet Decades after the Appalachian vocal technique known as “eefing” hit its peak… By MC Generik Hey, this is Generik, providing you with a brief history and insight on the art of beatboxing. Some consider it the lost 5th-element of hip-hop but, trust me, the art is far from lost. Decades after the Appalachian vocal […]

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book review: Reaching Out With No Hands: Reconsidering Yoko Ono, by Lisa Carver

[Books] Reaching Out With No Hands: Reconsidering Yoko Ono Tweet by Lisa Carver, from Backbeat Books, $18.99, biography, 5×7″ (approx) hardcover with dust jacket, 154 pages, 2012, backbeatbooks.com book review by Reviewer Rob In 1994 or 95 was weaning off of being the drunk nightclub photographer at Revolt in Style magazine because I had a habit of shooting nude photos […]

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