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Dane Penn -Ghosts of Departure

Review: Dane Penn – Ghosts of Departure EP

Review of “Ghosts of Departure” by Rockford singer-songwriter Dane Penn

Ryne Estwing

Review: Louis and The Hunt – Crocodile EP

Music review of the forthcoming follow-up EP by Lois and The Hunt “Crocodile” by Dane Pennacchi

Minotaur - A Man Amongst Human Wolves

Minotaur – A Man Amongst Human Wolves (Video)

Video for Minotaur’s A Man Amongst Human Wolves featuring Zombies and 2 Deloreans, KICK ASS!!!

Lizard Man, with Jason "Mossy Orenthal" Vaughn (Photo by Brian Milo)

Super Pussy Gold

Live at Kryptonite, Rockford, IL
11.19.2011

Rockford, IL’s Super Pussy Gold is Lizard Skynard minus Austin’s Lizard Man. Led by sonic alchemist, composer and lead guitarist, Jason “Mossy Orenthal” Vaughn, SPG blazed through 40 minutes of mostly instrumental compositions, focusing on texture and proficiency more than song messages and meaning.

David Pedersen

David Pedersen talks Love is Meat

Former guest and sometime co-host and contributer David Pedersen drops by the studio for a chat about his forthcoming book “Love is Meat”.

Your heart belongs smaller

Warren Franklin – Your Heart Belongs to the Midwest

A review of the new album from Warren Franklin by Alex Danger Stewart

Bloom

Bloom

Today’s podcast episode features Rockford’s Bloom.

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Cheap Trick – April Fools

Something can be said for longevity in rock n’ roll and Cheap Trick truly is one of rock’s longest running, American, bands. That alone is worth honoring their current existence over. However, for a band that has as many rabid fans, Trixsters, like nerds known as Trekkies, they never quite match their live performance energy with that of their recorded output…

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Wisconsin | Demolishing Democracy, A Cheap Trick

That is the true crime- the demolition of democracy was thrown down like a pile driver to the head in Wisconsin tonight. Unlike Illinois where corruption and delusional leadreship has run so rampant for decades that we believe it’s normal, I don’t expect Wisconsin to be quiet about this ruse like it’s neighbor’s state has behaved; like a herd of depressed, positively delusional, pathetic, over worked, over taxed…

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The Boxer Rebellion – Interview with Adam Harrison

“… quite a few people expected us to go for the jugular with a record after ‘Union’ but we were not going to be tempted by that, we care too much about the music.” – Adam Harrison, of The Boxer Rebellion

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