Dateline: Cleveland, Ohio
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Peter Chakerian is the Managing Editor of CoolCleveland, a free, subscription-based "e-blast" newsletter in Northeast Ohio. His work has appeared in The Plain Dealer, Akron Beacon Journal, Northern Ohio Live, Scene Magazine, Cleveland Magazine, Sun Newspapers, and the Cleveland Free Times, among others. His blog has nothing to do with the Cavedogs.
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Music Review: Aqualung - Memory Man
Matt Hales ratchets up the sonic cinema with guitars and a more layered approach. No flutes or prog rock fans were harmed.
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Music Review: Todd Snider - Peace, Love and Anarchy: Rarities, B-Sides and Demos, Vol. 1
Prolific singer-songwriter Snider drops a collection of deft, daft obscurities. Get ready for some pure, unadulterated fun.
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Music Review: William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet: Music from the Motion Picture, 10th Anniversary Edition
This Romeo redux offers bonus tracks, diversity, and celebrates what a modern motion picture soundtrack can do for a film.
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Music Review: Sondre Lerche and the Faces Down - Phantom Punch
With a couple more albums like this, the hearty Norwegian and his band are poised to develop into this generation’s Elvis Costello and the Attractions.
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The Death of Captain America and the Not-So Secret Wars
Captain American had to die to prove a point. The United States’ image as a just, righteous, moral compass is seemingly dead.
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Music Review: Tracey Thorn - Out of the Woods
For someone who has made work by EBTG, The Style Council, The Go-Betweens, Massive Attack and Lloyd Cole stunningly memorable, this is just stunningly disappointing. Not worth the 25-year wait.
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Music Review: Quantic - An Announcement to Answer
Loops, jazzy atmospherics, Brazilian jazz infuse multi-instrumentalist Quantic's electronic vibes with beauty.
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Is the Concert Tour T-Shirt Era Over?
Where's the love for concert tour shirts? Like My Darlin' Clementine, one writer thinks those halcyon days may be lost and gone forever.
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Music Review: Paolo Nutini - These Streets
Confident 19-year-old Scottish singer-songwriter harkens back to the days when "Van the Man" was a wee feisty lad.
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How To Save Rock & Roll Legacies From Wayward Embarrassment
This one goes out to every New Cars, Foreigner, Journey, Styx, Guns N’ Roses, and INXS who will listen.
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