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The Obelisk Questionnaire: Justin Daniels of Solace
The Obelisk Questionnaire is a series of open questions intended to give the answerer an opportunity to explore these ideas and stories from their life as deeply as they choose. Answers can be short...
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The Obelisk Questionnaire: Tim Cronin of The Ribeye Brothers
The Obelisk Questionnaire is a series of open questions intended to give the answerer an opportunity to explore these ideas and stories from their life as deeply as they choose. Answers can be short...
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Monster Magnet to Reissue Monolithic Baby! and 4-Way Diablo Sept. 16
Kind of an interesting reframing happening here of Monster Magnet‘s 2007 album, 4-Way Diablo. Originally released like its exclamatory 2004 predecessor, Monolithic Baby! (discussed here), through...
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Monster Magnet Announce Test Patterns: Vol. 1 Out Nov. 11
This’ll be fun. If you’ve heard those old demos — they’re on YouTube and all that — that earliest Monster Magnet stuff is noisy and experimental and raw as hell. Even as God Unknown Records announces...
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Friday Full-Length: Halfway to Gone, Halfway to Gone
Some bands are just always going to have a place in your heart. We’re going on 19 years since Halfway to Gone released their 2004 self-titled third album through Small Stone, and there’s still some...
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Quarterly Review: Darsombra, Bottomless, The Death Wheelers, Caivano,...
Welcome to Thursday of the Fall 202 Quarterly Review. It’s been a good run so far. three days and 30 records, about to be four and 40. I’ve got enough on my desktop and there’s enough stuff coming out...
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Monster Magnet Announce 35th Anniversary Tour
I know the various eras of Monster Magnet have their fans, but what to me undebatable about the long-running New Jersey-based heavy rock progenitors is the impact they’ve had across the span of their...
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Friday Full-Length: Solace, Further
The riff-mad scourge of the Jersey Shore, Solace made their full-length debut in 2000 through MeteorCity with the somewhat counterintuitively titled Further. What was then the four-piece of guitarist...
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Solace Announce Early 2025 Tour Dates; Playing Planet Desert Rock Weekend and...
Look. I’m not gonna fart around here. This is Solace we’re talking about. It’s not just another oh-hey-band-who-tours-all-the-time-is-announcing-a-tour sort of announcement. This is a different thing....
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Friday Full-Length: Lord Sterling, Today’s Song for Tomorrow
This was a band that could, and regularly did, put on a hell of a show. Didn’t matter that you were in The Saint or the Brighton at 10PM on some Wednesday or other in 2003 — Lord Sterling were about...
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