Cover bands are a work of art in Athens, with Halloween its constant canvas. The annual festival for dressing freaky and eating candy was accompanied, at least in Athens, with
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I’m a snob about punk music, a genre which I place into a finite definition. For many, merely having fast guitars and snide lyrics is enough to rise to the
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April 2014, Georgia Theatre, Athens GA I can agree that movies from the 1980s, for the most part, are terrible. After the grit of the 1970s, the Me Decade, for
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There are some things we can’t undo, which is a shame, because we don’t always know when we’re making a terrible mistake. I have regretful moments that stay with me,
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Germans make things tougher than they need to be, but I think it’s because they like the challenge. Look at their language, filled with 21-letter words with sometimes complex, existential
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Musical styles can migrate, like birds. It doesn’t happen all at once, a song here, a band there, but given some time to marinate, what was the groove in one