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The Grateful Dead weren't through with me. I'd tried to like them on their own merits, I'd tried to use them as romantic subterfuge - I'd learned my lesson. The years passed, and I wrote songs when I wasn't busy with something else, and by the time the 90's rolled around I had an album's worth of material. I eventually accumulated a few friends who were reasonably proficient at different instruments, and we declared ourselves a band - in theory if not practice; we didn... MORE
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After dropping my little daughter off at school yesterday, I strolled around the block to nearby Other Music, one of the last few decent record stores left in Manhattan (despite - or perhaps because of - their haughty disdain for relatively accessible selections). My reasons for stopping into record stores these days are purely Pavlovian. Be it an enclave of esoterica like Downtown Music Gallery on the Bowery or a fuckin' Coconuts in midtown, I find it nigh on impossible t... MORE
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And thus it is time for me to start rummaging through my shoeboxes full of cassettes to dig out my countdown-to- winter-solstice favorites. Today I woke up to a sky promising snow and now we have a light dusting. Winter is definitely not my favorite season, but those first few days of snow I feel such a sense of release. I guess sorta like an acceptance that it's finally here, and might as well make the most of it? Invest it with a romance that is a little harder to do w... MORE
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1985–1997, 2004–present
The Wedding Present are based in Leeds, England, and where formed in 1985 from the ashes of the Lost Pandas. Their music has evolved from fast-paced indie rock in the vein of their most obvious influences The Fall, Buzzcocks and Gang of Four, to more varied forms thanks to their reincarnation in 2004.
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god i love having an outlet for my indie-rock snobbery!(begin rant) i am pretty much over music festivals. they seem to be increasingly attracting the "wrong" kind of person - kids who are just there to consume copious amounts of all KINDS of things, the cooler-than-thou who are just there to be able to say they went, and invariably those bogans who don't really care about the music. not to mention the intoxicated buffoons, the mud/rain/dust/heat or whatever the australian... MORE
