When I was nineteen, I worked in a record store. Not like a High Fidelity thing – it was just the Sam Goody in the mall in the Rio Grande Valley. I had a manager there named Eddie. Nice dude, kind of a cokehead, in his early thirties. Long-haired rocker guy, could kick your ass [...]

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Hearing people a few years younger than you talk about what band is responsible for stealing the life and passion and politics from punk rock is like hearing teenagers talk about how saturday night live started to suck when Jimmy Fallon and Chris Parnell left. back in my day, you hear in your own head [...]

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Ever wonder what Lester Bangs would be into right now? I’m trying to listen exclusively to music from 2008 in an attempt to recapture some of the ol’ manic pop thrill of discovering a new album and not immediately discarding it for something else without getting to know the songs, and I’m thinking about Lester [...]

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