Category: New Music
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Album of the Week: “Highway 61 Revisited” by Bob Dylan
July 25th, 1965 – Bob Dylan is set to perform at the Newport Folk Festival alongside fellow stars of the folk music genre. A year prior, Dylan appeared at the 1964 edition of the festival, experiencing huge national exposure for the first time. His folk ballads and protest songs from “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan” and…
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Album of the Week: “Bluffer’s Guide to the Flight Deck” by Flotation Toy Warning
Every once in a listen, we encounter musical pieces that hold in them some innate sense of familiarity. Perhaps an artist’s musical style is reflective of another you’ve heard, or you encounter some forgotten sound which, when sampled, rings a nostalgic bell within your memory. Regardless of the reasoning for your recognition, familiarity brings with…
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Album of the Week: “Unleashed” by Toby Keith
Following 9/11, the country music genre experienced a massive shift in tone and subject matter, powered by rampant blind nationalism drudged up by the attacks and subsequent unjust wars of Bush’s United States. Gone were the soulful ballads of working class struggles and in came ramped up anthems of pride and praise for American hegemony.…
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