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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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Nine Inch Nails’ “Every Day is Exactly the Same” … no words have ever been truer

Nine Inch Nails' EP single for "Every Day is Exactly the Same."
I had to take a few days off due to some pesky allergies ... is it allergies? is it Covid? You know the routine. We've all pondered it with even the slightest deviation in health. Anyway, I've been thinking a lot about how this ongoing crisis continues to continue, and I thought of this Nine …

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Alessandro Cortini’s “Perdonare”

Alessandro Cortini. Photo sourced from artist's Facebook.
It's been a major crap day, due to a number of reasons I just don't want to get into. So I'm going to start the evening with an instrumental that's fitting for my mood. It's called "Perdonare," and comes from Alessandro Cortini, an Italian musician best known for being Nine Inch Nail's touring keyboardist. Admittedly, …

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Dead Souls

Peter Hook & the Light perform Joy Division's "Dead Souls" @ the the Wiltern on 09.24.16.
Yesterday, a friend of mine texted that he'd watched the film "The Crow" for the first time, and really enjoyed the soundtrack. He singled out a couple of tracks, one of which pertains to today's posting. It's an alternative post-punk goth classic titled "Dead Souls," originally recorded by Joy Division in 1981, then covered by …

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Nine Inch Nails @ the Hollywood Palladium on 12.15.18

Nine Inch Nails perform on the final night of the Cold and Black and Infinite tour at the Hollywood Palladium on 12.15.18.
While I debate what Christmas song to post for this fine yet chilly Christmas Eve, I'm gonna tackle Nine Inch Nails' final performance of the "Cold and Black and Infinite" tour. This was the last of a six night stand at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on 12.15.18. It's taken me a little time …

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