Now that any DIY-minded musician can release an album with a laptop and a pair of scissors, there’s simply no thrill of “getting signed” to a major record label anymore, right? Hardly. Spectra Records doesn’t think so either, and their nationwide search for the “Last Band Standing” includes local competition among bands across the genres. […]
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Just can’t get enough
My guts constrict when I hear the words “tribute band.” Pair the phrase with any of my favorite groups and I feel an added mix of horror, indignation, and curiosity. So when I heard about Blasphemous Rumours, a “live tribute to Depeche Mode,” appearing at the German House this past Saturday, I had to see […]
NATURE: Those Fall Feelings
Ah, fall. It’s that time again when those endless shades of green shift softly into muted pastels, visual whispers hinting to the brilliant grand finale to follow. Wild surges of life soon fill our senses, but with them come the inevitability of their approaching finality – an end we know as cyclic, but, despite the […]
DISH ’10: Sandwich guide
[ ROUND-UP ] Sometimes, when the demands of the world leave you feeling pressed and wafer thin, packed between obligations and carelessly speared by some pick with a garish plastic frill, you might reach for consolation in a comforting bowl of hot soup. Soup certainly takes in the tears, but how do we gather the […]






