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ALBUM REVIEW: Dinosaur Jr – There Near

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When it comes to bands that influenced modern Shoegaze and post-Hardcore, Dinosaur Jr’s name needs to be more prominent in the conversation; granted, if you were judging it by the band’s more modern era, which is more organic and less depressive, it might not be as apparent. On There Near (Jagjaguwar). The overall sound of this album is consistent with what the band has been doing in their modern era, with less moody grunge noise and more upbeat jangling in the guitars. “No Friends” finds the jangle given more rock context. The vocals carry a hint of melancholy, and at times the riffing brings Neil Young to mind. With this album, there is an even warmer, more organic sound than most of their previous material.

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The Inspector Cluzo Add New Tour Dates with Neil Young

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Following from the release of their tenth studio album, Less Is More, the Guascon organic farmers duo, The Inspector Cluzo, have confirmed 7 new dates. The shows see the pair perform as special guests on Neil Young’s Love Earth World Tour in June and July 2025. Keep reading below for more information.
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Woodstock Photographer Henry Diltz Featured on Gibson TV Series “Through The Lens”

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The latest episode of the Gibson TV series, Through The Lens, takes a deep dive into the work of photographer, Henry Diltz. Focusing on Henry’s photography of Neil Young, it also includes Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young. During the 1960s and 1970s, Diltz immortalized pivotal moments such as Woodstock, and the Monterey Pop Festival, and captured the Morrison Hotel album cover for The Doors. Find out more below.
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PREVIEW: Record Store Day 2024 Essential Rock, Metal and Punk Releases 

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Another Record Store Day is upon us and we are still to bring you our pretty comprehensive list of what releases we think you should be picking up, and labels you ought to support. We get that commercialism and capitalism a kind of destroying the whole world, but at the same time if you love music, and if you especially love underground music, you want to support artists as hardcore as possible. The best way to do that is to put money in their pockets so they can keep doing what you love, and what they love.  Continue reading →


ALBUM REVIEW: Foo Fighters – But Here We Are

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Ronnie James Dio. David Bowie. Dimebag Darrell. Lemmy. Jeff Hanneman. John Lennon. Kurt Cobain. Layne Staley. Trevor Strnad.

 

Countless others.

 

We all know where we were when we first heard they had died.

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Failure is Pulling Their Music off of Spotify

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Alternative Rock legends Failure has joined the chorus of bands leaving the dominant streaming service in the world, Spotify, following the public row with Neil Young. Young, Joni Mitchell and many other artists and fans are leaving the service for a variety of reasons. Failure has shared a message to fans over social media. The band gave a lengthy explanation of their feelings on the matter and urge fans to support them by using Bandcamp to purchase their entire catalog, including their recent release, Wild Type Droid (read our review here). The band will embark on a headline tour supporting the album.  

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Spotify’s Founder Responds to Neil Young vs. Joe Rogan Backlash, Rogan Apologizes

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Spotify founder and current CEO Daniel Ek has published an open letter in response to the criticism of the platform, waged by artists such as Neil Young and Joni Mitchell following Young’s request to have him music. The rub came from Young’s dissatisfaction over podcast host Joe Rogan’s show which has spread misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic and the platform’s apathy towwards its best paid ($100 MM USD) content provider. Ek’s letter does hint at changes to their content policy, it does seem that no content removal is forthcoming. Many other artsits are rumored to be considering pulling their music off the platform, while a wave of fans on social media are bragging about quitting the popular service. It was widely reported at the market close last week that Spotify has hemmoraged losses of up to 25% of its value in 2022 so far, between an estimated 2-4 Billion dollars. Rogan has appologized for the rift to Spotify and says he is a Neil Young fan. 

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Neil Young Demands Spotify Remove His Music Over Joe Rogan’s COVID-19 Misinformation

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Legendary Hall of Fame rocker Neil Young has demanded that all of his music be removed from  streaming service Spotify as quickly immediately, according to an open letter the veteran rock musician posted to his website and reported on by Rolling Stone. That message has since been deleted.  Young has drawn a line in the sand with Spotify over the misinformation about vaccines being peddled by Joe Rogan, the podcast host who signed a $100 million deal with Spotify in 2020. Young made a similar demand over 10 years ago taking issue with music streaming previously, but it used to be about the low-quality audio that was provided back in the mid-2010s. Joe Rogan gets an estimated 11 million listeners per episode. 

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ALBUM REVIEW: Jerry Cantrell – Brighten

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The albums that Grunge legend Jerry Cantrell has released across his solo career and his mothership Alice In Chains always seemed to have an intertwined relationship. 1998’s Boggy Depot and 2002’s Degradation Trip seemingly attempted to fill the void left in the wake of Alice’s hiatus and Layne Staley’s passing while Alice’s comeback albums with William DuVall on board essentially felt like Cantrell albums with extra riffs. This symbiosis turned cyclical with 2018’s Rainier Fog, which shared quite a bit of noticeable commonality with Boggy Depot . So where does Brighten, his first proper solo album in nineteen years, fit into this dichotomy?

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