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REVIEW: Taylor Academy Series Acoustic Guitars
Learn what the new Taylor Academy Series brings to the mid-range acoustic market. Taylor Guitars...
Galaxy Audio 600MHz Buyback Program
Galaxy Audio now has a trade-in program available that will allow you to trade in any brand of...
LIVE REVIEW: Textures & The Contortionist
Where: The New Parish in Oakland, CA When: September 20 Highlight: Complex, high-energy sets of progressive metal It was a night of progressive...
LIVE REVIEW: Life Is Good Festival
Where: Canton, MA When: September 23-24 Highlight: Picturesque surroundings and explosive live sets, all for a good cause The Life Is Good Festival...
LIVE REVIEW: The Lemonheads
WHERE: Rhythm and Brews - Chattanooga, TN WHEN: October 1 HIGHLIGHT: Evan Dando in top form, owning the stage Evan Dando opened the show solo with...
LIVE REVIEW: Austin City Limits
Where: Zilker Park in Austin, TX When: September 16-18 Highlight: Rain clouds parting for an a cappella performance by Ha Ha Tonka This September,...
Live Review: Watch the Throne Tour
When: November 21, 2011 Where: TD Garden - Boston, MA The expectation that was set for this performance was grandiose to say the least. Accompanying the most anticipated collaborative album of the...
Record Review: Youth Lagoon
Youth Lagoon The Year of Hibernation Boise, ID “An ambient look back at childhood” Only in his early twenties, Trevor Powers of Youth Lagoon already reminisces about childhood innocence in his debut...
Record Review: Wing and Hollow
Wing and Hollow Frozen Trees Los Angeles, CA “For that intimate club feeling at home” Frozen Trees, a self-released album from husband-and-wife duo Haven and Jill Lamoureux, is a melancholy, yet...
Record Review: Tyler Ramsey
Tyler Ramsey The Valley Wind Asheville, NC “Guitars on top of a mountain…in the middle of the ocean” Tyler Ramsey might have felt like a lucky guy when Band of Horses recruited the North...
Record Review: Topshelf Records Sampler 2011
Topshelf Records 2011 Label Sampler Boston, MA “68 bands for the price of validation” It’s essentially impossible to review this sampler. To start, it’s free. For the price of clicking “like” on...
VINYL OF THE MONTH: The Stone Foxes
VINYL OF THE MONTH The Stone Foxes Psycho b/w Serious People San Francisco, CA “The Black Keys meet the Grateful Dead” Psycho - The Stone Foxes by SidewaysMedia Distorted vocals, commanding chords,...