Neymar іѕ uncomfortable аt Barcelona

Neymar іѕ а step аwау frоm starting hіѕ fіfth season wіth Barcelona. Thе Brazilian wаѕ оnе оf thе icons аt thе Rakuten presentation w...

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Liverpool durіng Klopp's time аt thе club

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp ѕауѕ striker Daniel Sturridge іѕ іn thе "best condition" hе hаѕ bееn іn durіng Klopp's tim...

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The Rossoneri continue to buy new players

AC Milan continue to steal the show in the transfer market this summer. The Rossoneri continue to buy new players, with unlimited trans...

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Motocaster - Stay Loaded (1994, Interscope)

Don't have much time for a write-up tonight, but this one was requested on the heals of my share of a vintage Motocaster single from a...

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Serious Young Insects - Housebreaking (1982, Epic Aus.)

It wasn't until a few weeks ago that I became acquainted with this Melbourne, Aussie lot - some three full decades after the fact.  Talk...

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Hippodrome - dogbunny (1989) + Junk Monkeys show announcement

One of my readers tipped me off about an upcoming one-off reunion gig involving one of the more oft mentioned subjects of these pages, Detro...

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Watch: The Aminals At Night "One Down, One to Go"

The Animals at Night are hardly a name brand commodity, but for those of you who frequent these pages you might be familiar with the group...

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The Stevens - s/t ep (2012)

The Stevens may be a fresh faced export from Melbourne, Australia, but when listing to this disk, I can't help but conjure up the treas...

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The Sonnets - Deep Forest Gold ep (1988)

Lacking a shred of web presence, the most I can tell you is that The Sonnets cut these half-a-dozen tracks at Dancing Dog Studios in Oaklan...

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Love Battery - Straight Freak Ticket (1995)

Though they were never an overwhelming favorite of mine, I enjoyed Love Battery's body of work for Sub Pop, especially 1993's Far G...

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A moment or two with Shark Tape

Ostensibly named after a device for dispensing tape to bandage athletic injuries, this Philly three-piece bear a sophisticated sonic wallop ...

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Mrs. Svenson - Rocktopuusy (1997, unreleased)

First things first - try to get past the rather cheesy makeshift album sleeve to your right that my buddy Oxy slapped together.  In all sinc...

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Watch: Drowner's "Written"

Word went out yesterday from Saint Marie Records HQ that we've been given the go-ahead to host Drowner's video for "Written,...

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War on the Saints ep (1988, Positive Force)

If I'm not mistaken, Positive Force Records was a label owned and operated by Kevin Seconds (of 7 Seconds ).  The Rockford, IL-based Wa...

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Bring Home the Lobsters - tape (1986, Horse Latitudes)

For the three or four of you reading this who have any firsthand familiarity with Bring Home the Lobsters , I'd politely suggest you not...

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The Meanies - two singles from 1993

Had I the option to document music online in the early '90s, or more accurately given the era, were I to have published a fanzine, Melbo...

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Lovejunk - All We Have to Do is Stay Together 7" & Dare To Be Wrong ep (1991)

Roughly ten years ago I belatedly discovered an uber-obscure '80s Brit punk act, Perfect Daze , by virtue of an anthology type retrospec...

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Hangtime - Plug In (2010) - a brief overview

I guess you can't blame me for approaching a pop-punk album with a certain amount of trepidation, what with so many clones, reruns, and ...

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Motocaster - "The Buddha" 7" (1993, Blast-o-Platter)

What would possess a promising, upstart rock band, circa the early '90s who happened to hail from the indie hotbed of North Carolina to ...

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Theory on Blondes - Better Things tape (1990)

A theory on blondes you say?  Can't help you there, but I've got one on redheads.  We'll save that for another time perhaps.  As...

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