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Top 20 albums of 2012 #14: Kendrick Lamar - good kid m.A.A.d city
In 2011, Kendrick Lamar released 'Section.80', a concept album that had come to him in a dream. It was ambitious, sprawling, and particularly unfocused. His lyrics were full of anger, aimed at those who hurt his characters, but his final message was awareness. He wrote these song…
The Gaslight Anthem live in Philadelphia
The first time I saw The Gaslight Anthem, they were the fourth band on a four-band bill at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia. It was right around the time they were finishing up The ’59 Sound, and there was a swagger in frontman Brian Fallon’s lyrics that didn̵…
Cloud Nothings live in New York
On Monday, at Terminal 5 in New York City, Cloud Nothings put on one of the best sets I’ve seen in a while. The only problem is that no one seemed to notice. It didn’t make too much sense. Earlier this year, I wrote that 'Attack on Memory', Cloud Nothing’s terr…
Xponential Festival
Over the weekend, a non-profit radio station put together a music festival in New Jersey. The festival consisted of three stages varying in size from “lawn seat” massive to wedding band small. These stages, two of them put together solely for the purpose of the festiv…
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