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Beaten Awake's video for "Thunder$troke" is a trip in the truest LSD dropping, kaleidoscopic colors surrounding, mind expanding sense of the word. The story line goes something like this: The boys in the band, travel by rocketship, car, and any fantastic means possible to meat up with their ...
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You may already know that the Black Keys/Hip Hop collaboration, BlakRoc, are releasing their debut disc this Friday at independent record stores and iTunes, but you probably are not aware of this finely-tuned, American muscle-machine tie-in -- The official BlakRoc Camaro . It's black, of course, ...
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The Black Keys
Hip Hop
The problem with being a band like Dinosaur, Jr, a band whose original lineup of J. Mascis, Murph, and Lou Barlow found a second life with consistent touring and two very solid studio albums in the latter half of this decade, is that it's damn near impossible to please all of those who remember ...
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Wizzard Sleeve’s "No Mongo" is one fantastic slab of something awesome. One could call it fuzz or scuzz or lo-fi or punk or psych and you’d be right. One could come up with clever metaphors like "Early Jay Reatard soaked in robo," or "Like Seattle Sludge meets The Smell," or "Like ...
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Psych
Alabama
Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig earned super respect from this writer when during a recent interview with Pitchfork, he was asked to discuss the spoiled white-kid label often given to him and his band. He answer was priceless : When people try to frame us as these spoiled rich kids, I want to ...
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Vampire Weekend
The Clash
Surfer Blood's debut single, "Swim," is one of those numbers that had it been recorded in the '80s, its video would require a California beach, bikini babes, muscle men, and a flashy Camaro. Thankfully, we're in a different decade. By utilizing a lo-fi approach similar to that of ...
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Blurt Magazine's Edward Burch has some mighty high praise for Bill Fox's Shelter From the Smoke , the Cleveland songwriter's long out of print 1996 solo album which has been freshly expanded and reissued by Scat Records: For the past ten years, the two Fox solo albums are all we've had from ...
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The Nine
This past Saturday night, I had the opportunity to attend an open house party at Gotta Groove Records, Cleveland's new vinyl pressing plant, located in the Tyler Building on Superior Avenue, on Cleveland's near East Side, and in between finger foods, beers, and perhaps the best piece of ...
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* 19 Totally, buck naked bicyclists. * 1 Wayne Coyne in a big, plastic bubble. * 1 Large, grunting fur ball with a vagina. * 9 Totally, buck naked people who emerge from the large, grunting fur ball with a vagina. * 49 Totally, buck naked people dancing in the forest around Wayne Coyne in a big ...
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The Flaming Lips
Numbers
Regular updates will resume shortly. For those of you who don't already know, I started a new job this week, meaning I don't have time to sit around all day and think about I Rock Cleveland. Not that I sat around and thought about I Rock Cleveland all day when I didn't have a job -- There were ...
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For all the instances in music history where rock and rap mixed quite well -- From the hip-hop influenced work of Blondie and The Clash to the high profile collaborations between Aerosmith and Run DMC, Anthrax and Public Enemy, and The Judgement Night soundtrack -- it's the one instance of ...
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Jim Jones
The Black Keys
For fans of the underground heavy, a super group of underground heavies couldn't possibly be more super than Shrinebuilder. Simply saying the names Scott Kelly (Neurosis), Al Cisneros (Om, Sleep), Wino (The Obsessed, Saint Vitus, Hidden Hand), and Dale Crover (Melvins) out loud adds ...
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Amy Winehouse
In many ways, Kurt Vile's Matador Records debut, Childish Prodigy, is a work in progress. There's a noticeable split between the swamp rock of a track like "Hunchback," where he's backed by his band, The Violators, and the ramble-tamble, electric folk which comprises the bulk of the album. ...
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The Prodigy
It's always been my contention (And I'm sure others would concur), that the perfect three-to-four minute pop song doesn't need an explanation. One needn't study the lyrics, chart its chord progressions, or burrow into its back story. All the proof you need occurs during the first impression, the ...
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Dan Auerbach and Pat Carney of the Black Keys are putting aside their respective side projects and will perform a benefit show for the recently deceased artist Alfred McMoore, on Friday, November 27th at Musica in Akron . Proceeds from the performance will benefit Community Support Services , an ...
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The Black Keys
Dan Auerbach
Community
Friday, October 30th : 3rd Annual Halloween Show @ the Beachland Tavern feat. featuring The Who (by The Hot Rails), Nirvana (This Is A Shakedown & Leo), The Damned (Living Stereo), and Dead Milkmen (Fakawi). Halloween show @ Pat's in the Flats feat. Presidents Of The United States Of ...
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The Who
Nirvana
Presidents of the United States of America
Friends
Grateful Dead
Mission of Burma The Sound The Speed The Light Matador Exhibiting the rawness and aggression of a band half their age, Mission of Burma's third post-reunion album, The Sound, The Speed, The Light, has more in common with the early-to-mid '80s output of this seminal Boston post-punk band than ...
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Those long rumored Bill Fox re-issues are about to become a reality. A pre-order is now available from Scat Records for the deluxe version of Fox's first solo album, Shelter from the Smoke. The expanded tracklist compiles cuts from both versions of the album and also includes the '95 single ...
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If you came out to the Beachland Ballroom Saturday night hoping to hear the blues, you'd have left the venue damn well p*ssed. In spite of the American roots rock pedigree of Drummer's bassist, Pat Carney, aka, the drummer for the Akron blues, duo, The Black Keys, the assembled super-group of ...
