Dateline: The People's Republic of Northern Eastern Massachusetts
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John Owen is a music writer, multi-instrumentalist and music industry veteran based in coastal Massachusetts.
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The Night Tripper... New Orleans... Tipitina's... Mardi Gras... what a combination!! So why isn't it a better record?
Rhino reissues the Heads' second album in a regrettable but fun DualDisc format and 5.1 mix that affirms just how good they really were.
Decently remastered with a few bonus tracks, but the main attraction is the songwriting and hijinks on Cheap Trick's last really good studio album.
I have been fumbling with a proper obituary for the man for an hour now.
A solid and entertaining retrospective from the pioneers of queercore, with sharp lyrics, catchy hooks, and approximately 15 million dick jokes.
A comfortable, laid-back, and completely unpretentious alternative country album by three friends and long-time veterans of the North Carolina indie music scene.
The earliest recordings of Steve Earle, Guy Clark, Rodney Crowell, John Hiatt, and others feature in this newly collected 1975-76 soundtrack to the alt-country revolution.
A feckless, reckless, angry and magnificently self-indulgent old school country record from country music's most famous grandson.
Reclusive funk icon Sly Stone may be getting the band back together again - the original band - for the first time since 1971.
An impressively self-assured sophomore effort from the New England indie rockers. I bet you they won't play this on the radio, but they should.
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