I’m in the midst of a search at the moment for artists similar to Everlast (especially the White Trash Beautiful album) – the whole hip-hop/blues/folk thing is doing it for me. I’ve always been a huge G Love & Special Sauce fan and I see some pretty interesting musical similarities between the two… but now I want more!! I’ll often search through All-Music Guide and look for “similar ar
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Posts by Oldscooler
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The Beauty of Words
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As someone who likes to play music as much as I like to listen to it, the ways that songs affect me vary. Sometimes it's a bassline or guitar riff that I hear that I decide I simply must learn, or maybe it's a part of a song that I try and figure out how to work into something I'm trying to write (or indeed a whole song that I figure would make a great cover). Then there are the times that the lyr
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Boxset bliss
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Hmm, just noticed that the last post I did was made on April 29... so obviously I had to immediately play the song of the same name by Sublime. In fact I recently bought the Everything Under The Sun box set, and I have to say that it was worth every cent. For a band with such limited output, the idea of listening to their weird studio outtakes and the like creates a very personal kind of relations
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Lovin' lo-fi
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I've been spending a bunch of time listening to the new album from Melbourne (Australia) band the Offcutts. There's something about the really raw, "recorded in a stairwell", laden with simple riffs kind of sound that appeals. I get similar enjoyment from bands like G.Love & Special Sauce and Sublime - very different genres but sharing that same live kind of sound... just wish I could find more...
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