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The Dry County Crooks’ First Album in Fifteen Years Marks a Strong Comeback 0
- Music
- August 18, 2023
I don’t know about you, but I could probably count at least ten bands that I grew up listening to that broke up in the last fifteen years, but have recently got back together. The Dry County Crooks is not one of those bands, but I wish they were. You see, I hadn’t heard of
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Bands You’ve Never Heard Of, But Are Worth Your Time: House of Heroes 0
- Music
- January 9, 2022
I don’t know about you, but I don’t have a terribly positive view of Ohio. (Sorry if you’re from there or are moving there, or have an affinity for flat and cold places…) It could be that I was raised in Charleston, South Carolina, which is sometimes referred to as South Ohio, because of all
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Bands You’ve Never Heard Of, But Are Worth Your Time: The Dingees 0
- Music
- September 30, 2021
I’m not quite sure how it happened, but somewhere along the line I acquired a taste for music on the fringe. Maybe it was that desire to find something cool before it became “cool.” Or possibly I was just never cool in the first place, so I was drawn to other things like me (let’s
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Listening to Operation Ivy’s legendary album Energy for the first time 0
- Music
- May 18, 2021
I remember the first time I saw an Operation Ivy patch, oversized and haphazardly sewn onto the jean jacket of the only punker on my middle school bus. I was developing my own taste in music at the time, but tended towards the brighter side of punk and ska — bands like Five Iron Frenzy,
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