Shannon McArdle / Summer Of The Whore (Bar/None) Considering that Shannon McArdle's solo debut came relatively hot on the heels of the dissolution of both her band - The Mendoza Line - and her marriage to said band's principal songwriter Tim Bracey, it'd have been reasonable to expect it to be damaged in tenor at the very least. And it is, absolutely, running the emotional gamut from anger to...
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Always the thinking person's country rockers, Brooklyn's Mendoza Line took its name from a baseball term for the lowest possible batting average you could have and still remain in the majors (it's .215 and named after Mario Mendoza). The band is all done now, and Mendoza Line mainstays Shannon McArdle and Timothy Bracy are breaking up their marriage as well as their band...but there's one more...
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'30 Year Low', The Mendoza Line's final album, will be released 21 August on Glurp Records. It will also contain an 18 song bonus disk entitled 'Final Remarks Of The Legendary Miscontent' made up of rehearsal takes, demos, and covers.Here's the slow-burner Since I Came off the new release. Have also included two catchier tunes from earlier releases in comments to hopefully flesh out The Mendoza...
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Two weeks ago I posted a list of my 50 favorite albums of the past decade. You can catch up with that here, here, here, here, and here, if you’d like. Or, you know, just scroll down a little bit, I guess. That’s probably easier. While drafting the list (there were 164 original considerations) I found that I rediscovered plenty of albums that were and are still worthy of more attention, even th
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