March 2010
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February 2010
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Twitterverse; A Declaration of Insurgence.
As I take my first steps into this twitterverse, I am discernedly dimmer than I have been in the face of the social media of my youth. Like the elderly to cell phones, I can’t help but perceive the phenomenon with a sense of carelessness and angst. On the surface, this strange and unusual forum seems riddled with bizarre codes, eerie symbols and a wealth of absentee-information; a mounding...
August 2009
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Yo La Tengo members release covers album as Condo...
By Karl S. Otto / Staff Writer Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Some bands just never break out of their respective city’s scene, and the Condo Fucks are no exception. Or are they? According to legend, the New London, Connecticut band has tromped its way through the hearts of post-punk-starved adolescents yearning for the trashiest garage-rock they could find in the early 1990s.
The power-trio –...
Yeah Yeah Yeahs third album Its Blitz!
By Karl S. Otto / Staff Writer
Friday, April 3, 2009 It’s no secret that New York City’s burgeoning alt-rock scene is becoming a Mecca for our nation’s label-redefining youth.
We are part of a generation of progressive thinkers with alternative lifestyles that enrich the culture around us, and the music industry is beginning to reflect this notion. On March 31, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs debuted...
July 2008
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The Electric Apricot
The venue was brimming with angst and anticipation since the anomalistic king of four strings, would soon traipse onto the stage and redefine what we all consider music. An entirely general admission show, The Vic Theatre in Chicago was seething with patrons from adolescent new comers to 40 year-old die-hards all sharing a common bond, an unbridled reverence for bassist, singer and song writer...