Merry Styxmas from Bootleg City!Two weeks ago the mayor called from his dorm room jail cell and asked if I could whip something up for a special holiday edition of Bootleg City. I answered, “No problem,” and asked if he had any particular genre or band in mind that would be appropriate.Â
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No CommentsCrucifyre, Infernal Earthly Divine (Pulverized) A new band playing old-school Swedish death metal? You don’t say? Swedish death metal is so damn played out at this point that listening to this disc was not at the top of my priority list. However, maybe the fact that these guys haven’t ha
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No CommentsStacie Collins, Sometimes Ya Gotta…The cover might look like a rejected panel from Marvel Comics Goes to the Rodeo, but there’s nothing cartoonish about Stacie Collins’ Sometimes Ya Gotta… – it’s actually 45 minutes of beer-soaked rock ‘n’ roll, as swe
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No CommentsWilly Porter & Carpe Diem, Live at BoMA While you’re busy making New Year’s resolutions, here’s one worth adding to the list: acquaint yourself with the music of Willy Porter, the singer/songwriter/guitarist extraordinaire whose finely wrought observations on life and love have
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No CommentsHave you ever heard of hype? You know, that minor stipulation that keeps all your favorite artists off the radio and the regular, sometimes undeserving, 140 characters being plastered in the general public’s faces instead. In a perfect world, good music doesn’t fall on deaf ears, but si
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No CommentsWho needs Viagra® when there’s some of the devil’s poison promoted by a legendary porn star to get your rocks off. If a Ron Jeremy Rum ‘N Coke will have you performing like America’s beloved smut peddler, you’ll see plenty of hapless cats ordering doubles when it hit
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No CommentsSince handing off the iPod to my lady friend, I’ve recently reduced myself to mostly CD listening. So, without a burnt copy of Star Slinger’s magic instrumental LP Volume 1, I’ve been left yearning to hear one song specifically, which is his escalating map to happiness, “Bum
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No CommentsIf you don’t know where Black Milk is from, it’s probably a safe assumption to say you’ve never heard of him. Every piece of music he shares with his global fanbase, he goes out of his way to bring to them to Detroit, no matter their actual location. Although he wasn’t exact
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No CommentsThere was a point in time when Steve Francis ranked as one of the more exciting guards in the NBA. That point has long since passed. Truthfully, I hadn’t thought about the former University of Maryland superstar in quite some time until coming across this story in the wee hours of Tuesday mor
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No CommentsIf you can’t beat ‘em, you might as well join ‘em and that’s how Reek Da Villian is presenting you with his new effort. Until Busta Rhymes figures out how he wants to attack the second half of his career, he’s giving Long Island his energy on the street album, mixtape
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