Category: Reviews
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Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – Awesome Soundtracks for Questionable Films
Listen along to the Playlist Awesome Soundtracks for Questionable Films Notes from Awesome Soundtracks for Questionable Films 1. My Best Friend’s Girl – The Cars, Over The Edge (1979) Over the Edge is an American coming of age crime drama directed by Jonathan Kaplan and released in May 1979. The film, based on actual events, had a limited theatrical…
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Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – Roadtrip Edition
Follow playlist at… Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – Roadtrip Edition 1. I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) – Proclaimers, (1988) This song didn’t become a hit in the US until 1993, when used in Benny & Joon. It was used after the director heard the song being played on his personal stereo by Mary Ann Waterston.…
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Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – Songs of Isolation During Shelter In Place Order
Follow playlist at… Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtape – Shelter in Place 1. Yesterday – Beatles, Help Studio Album, (1965) “Yesterday” is one of the most recorded songs in the history of popular music. Its entry in Guinness World Records states that, by January 1986, 1,600 cover versions had already been made. The song took a while to…
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Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – Guilty Pleasures Part 1
Follow Playlist at Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – Guilty Pleasures Outline / Notes Guilty Pleasures Mixtape Side A 1. Vanilla Ice – Ice Ice Baby, Hooked – To The Extreme, 1989 When it was originally released as a single it was actual the “B” side, but a DJ in Georgia played the wrong side and…
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New Music Discovery: Gong Gong Gong
By Dennis G. Keat Photo of Keat by Kelly Segré Music is subjective, but there exists this collective idea of what it’s supposed to be, or how it’s supposed to sound. Every so often, however, there’s an artist that comes along and challenges that perception. When you hear the term, “rock music,” what do you…
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Music Review of Gabriella Evaro, Jame Doe, & The Flusters – Palm Springs
By Dennis G. Keat Photograph of The Flusters By Kelly Segré For decades, Indie music has carried with it a reputation for being incredibly experimental, with an affinity for theatrics. And while the genre is an all encompassing term for musicians that are unsigned to a major label, oftentimes, it also refers to musicians that…
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