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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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The Chameleons(Vox)
A few days ago, I ventured into this semi-post-punk riff, starting with Portland outfit Soft Kill, then moving on to SoCal's Cold Showers, both of whom embrace that old-school rebellious energy, while layering nu wave synth melodies with melodic pop listenability. Back in that initial post, I made reference to another longtime genre act, The …

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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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