It's nearing midnight, and guitarist Brett Bakman is unleashing a guitar solo in the truest sense: center-stage, without any accompaniment from his band. Bakman is wailing. And, to be honest, it's just a little bit weird.Weird? I guess I just wasn't expecting a guitar solo at a rap show.But then again, this isn't exactly your mama's rap, either. Bakman plays for Thrasher, an up-and-coming rapper i
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Faced with a perpetually evolving culture which, from the fall of Napster to the rise of iTunes, has come to value singles over albums, the Harm have met the challenges of music in a new millennium on their own terms, with an attitude that may come to define the way artists produce and release music.Every few months over the next year, L.A.'s the Harm plan to release a collection of four or fiv...
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So I use this music service called Ruckus to get a lot of my music, mainly because it's free for college students (yes!). So one of the albums I downloaded is Say Anything's "...Is a Real Boy." Though this is not my typical type of music, I actually really like this album.Ruckus often has two different versions of an album--clean and explicit. Sometimes it's not clear which is which, so I had t...
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I've been back at school for a few weeks and, as such, haven't had much time for Mogging. But since I'm creating a moment of free time before I pass out/go to sleep, I figured I'd post some brief but bottled-up thoughts about the White Stripes.First of all, I love the White Stripes. I bought tickets to their concert at Berkeley for a reason. I had the honor of meeting both Whites after a show s...
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