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The End of Comfort Food: Last of the Past from “80’s Weekend #4”
Okay, it's taken me a lot longer than anticipated to finally put a pin in this prolonged '80s flashback series, best known as "80's Weekend" (or the plural version of that, since this will be the third and final installment of this series). Call it what you will - procrastination, distraction, burn-out, etc. Actually, I've …

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Witching & Bitching, ’90s Hollywood & Concrete Blonde’s “Tomorrow, Wendy,”
Taking a slight detour today. I'm smack dab in the middle of writing up my last "80's Weekend" post, which has been up against the usual challenges of time, energy, and motivation. And today, I woke up thinking I just needed a brief change of pace. Not a big one. Just something that's not definitely …

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HEALTH issues :: “ANTI-LIFE” + “ISN’T EVERYONE” + a flashback performance at Cloak & Dagger 2017
I thought of breaking this into individual posts. But it's just easier to lump them all together. So let's get started ...L.A.'s own industrious noise rockers HEALTH have a crunchy new single titled "ANTI-LIFE," featuring Deftone's frontman Chino Moreno. It's got crazy percussive drum-patterns, raucous guitar licks, and an audio attitude meshed between aggro grind …

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