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Author: Jawad Qadir

Fan Blog – Valerie Lopez on Hole’s Live Through This

August 17, 2019 Jawad Qadir Leave a Comment

Hole / Live Through This Fan Post by Valerie Lopez It is hard to listen to Hole’s album and disconnect the lead singer, Courtney Love, from the complicated history with Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain. That is a truism if you were a consumer of music in the 1990s. Millennials might have a different relationship to this […]

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Bobby Lee’s Mixtape

August 6, 2019September 4, 2019 Jawad Qadir Leave a Comment

Bobby Lee has been a huge fan of R.E.M. for years. And the unconventional outlook and off-the-wall energy that have made him a breakout star on shows like Mad TV and Splitting Up Together are the perfect tools to chisel through the heady pretension of R.E.M’s 1987 alt rock classic Document. Listen to the episode […]

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Krystina Hutchinson’s Mixtape

July 17, 2019September 4, 2019 Jawad Qadir Leave a Comment

Krystina Hutchinson knows that sometimes it feels good to feel bad. And what better theme music is there to those moments of dark ruminations on love and misery than the soulless soul music of Echo and the Bunnymen’s 1981 sophomore release Heaven Up Here? Listen to her discuss the album here, and check out what […]

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Fan Blog – Thomas Bedenbaugh on The Magnetic Fields’ 69 Love Songs

July 5, 2019August 7, 2019 Jawad Qadir Leave a Comment

The Magnetic Fields / 69 Love Songs Fan Post by Thomas Bedenbaugh Whenever I hear 69 Love Songs, I am instantly reminded of the summer between my sophomore and junior years of college. I was drawn to it more out of curiosity than anything else.  I couldn’t imagine an artist making an album that was […]

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Kelsey Cook’s Mixtape

June 29, 2019September 4, 2019 Jawad Qadir Leave a Comment

For comedian Kelsey Cook, few bands held such an important space in her head and heart as Coldplay, who came into their own just as she was navigating the fraught path towards womanhood. Listen to her discuss the band here, and check out what else Kelsey is listening to. H.E.R. – Let Me In Billie Illish – […]

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Fan Blog – The Paul Butterfield Blues Band

June 15, 2019August 7, 2019 Jawad Qadir Leave a Comment

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band / The Paul Butterfield Blues Band Fan Post by Josh Denny I find myself increasingly fascinated with albums that could be considered signifiers of a shift in the musical landscape. The albums that encapsulate a generation of music or boldly proclaim where the next frontier lies. The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s […]

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Fan Blog – Josh Denny on LL Cool J’s Radio

June 3, 2019 Jawad Qadir Leave a Comment

LL Cool J / Radio Fan Post by Josh Denny If I had to judge hip-hop based solely on what my brothers played when I was younger, I would avoid it at all costs. While not all of it was terrible (most of it was), what really bothered me was that the genre lacked any […]

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Avery Pearson’s Mixtape

May 28, 2019September 4, 2019 Jawad Qadir Leave a Comment

Comedian, actor and musical savant Avery Pearson is no stranger to both joy and sadness.. And it is his ability to accept both the good and the bad with an unceasing zest for living that makes him perhaps the most qualified of all to pick apart Richard and Linda Thompson’s I Want to See the […]

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Fan Blog – Thomas Bedenbaugh on Richard and Linda Thompson’s I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight

May 25, 2019 Jawad Qadir Leave a Comment

Richard and Linda Thompson / I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight Fan Post by Thomas Bedenbaugh My dad’s musical taste was a very formative precursor for my own budding obsession with music. He owned almost every Beatles album, which allowed me to sit in my room for hours listening to Revolver and Rubber […]

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Fan Blog – Evan Wynne on George Michael’s Faith

May 20, 2019July 5, 2019 Jawad Qadir Leave a Comment

George Michael / Faith Fan Post by Evan Wynne George Michale’s iconic album Faith was released on October 30th, 1987. Immediately, the album was received with critical and commercial success, as it shot to number one on the Billboard chart, and garnered Michael with the Grammy for Album of the Year. I first heard of […]

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