Category: music
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Genghis Tron was one of our nation’s great bands, fight me, fight me.
It’s weird how 2008 has become a year of nostalgia for me. It’s long enough ago that I can feel nostalgic but recent enough that I remember everything like it was yesterday. It was a good year for me and music, my vision wasn’t shit yet, I did a lot of international travel around that time,…
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(Back in) Heavy Rotation: My Late Summer Jams
Since I’ve been doing more personal/general writing than the writing I do for TLF and at Cultural Pulse I was trying to figure out where to put it, Instead of starting a new blog, I figured I’d dump it all here, and it’s currently under the title Enjoy and Exciting, hearkening back to my old…
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Morris Day and The Time are the Heroes of Purple Rain
Now that everyone is revisiting Purple Rain as we all deal with our grief, I wanted to quickly revisit an opinion I’ve had since I watched the movie as a kid: Morris Day and The Time are the actual heroes in Purple Rain. I’m not saying they’re “nice guys.” They are young local musicians, and if…
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Some scattered, dehydrated thoughts as I mourn Prince
I am dehydrated as hell because of Prince. After 24 hours of crying, drinking wine from a can, more crying, and drinking more wine with friends, even this 33 oz bottle of club soda I’m drinking doesn’t seem to be enough to replenish me right now. I’m sure I have more tears to come, when…
Keidra Chaney 