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1. Damon Ferrara on January 8, 2021 at 1:38 pm

   My friend and TLC Member, Hannah Petrie, introduced me to the catchy, poppy, punky, female LA rock trio, Bleached. They’ve put out three albums. I love them all…and i think what I appreciate most about Bleached is their authenticity.
   It is borderline impossible to not start clapping and nodding along to “Real Life”
   “You don’t need to tell me now that everything’s alright. I don’t want to give in and be perfect all the time. How was I supposed to know that things fall apart? I think I should apologize, but I don’t know where to start. Something feeling so right. This is really, really, really, real life.”

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2. Damon Ferrara on January 8, 2021 at 1:52 pm

   Car Seat Headrest’s central member and driving force, Will Toledo, is amongst this generation’s most talented artists and, in my opinion, is in the same league as a guy like David Byrne.
   At 26 years old, Will Toledo has already produced a dozen or so albums that he began recording in the backset of his car (hence the name Car Seat Headrest).
   The musical influences in his sound are limitless, but I read one guy describe CSH’s sound as if you were listening to the Beach Boys through blown speakers. Harmon and melody meet garage rock. It’s spectacular. Lyrically, the guy is brilliant…insightful and introspective.
   “Drunk Driver/Killer Whales’ is CSH’s most well known song
   ‘But if we learn how to live like this maybe we can learn how to start again like a child who’s never done wrong, who hasn’t taken that first step. We are not a proud race. It’s not a race at all. We’re just trying. I’m only trying to get home.’

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3. Damon Ferrara on January 8, 2021 at 2:00 pm

   The Gear Daddies were a relatively obscure alternative country band from Minnesota that somehow made their way into the CD player of a buddy of mine’s truck in suburban New Jersey circa 1992 when we were in high school. It is worth pointing out that the Gear Daddies did play on the David Letterman show.
   This is simple music…jangly playful guitars, steady rhythms and heartfelt, earnest lyrics about making the awkward transition from boyhood to being a young man. From start to finish, this album will always hold a special place in my heart.
   ‘And I won’t forget to call. And I won’t lie to you at all. And I’ll stop smoking cigarettes so please don’t give up on me yet. I swear, I swear, I’ll change…just not today.’

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4. Peter Sperger on January 22, 2021 at 11:15 am

   The brains behind the band “Songs: Ohia,” Jason Molina, was a tragic figure. He drank himself to death. This whole album is amazing, kind of like northern (cold) country music created by a 2000s version of Crazy Horse. With “Hold On Magnolia,” Molina tragically foreshadows his eventual real life death.

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5. Peter Sperger on January 22, 2021 at 11:18 am

   The brains behind the band “Songs: Ohia,” Jason Molina, was a tragic figure. He drank himself to death. This whole album is amazing, kind of like northern/cold country music created by a 2000s version of Crazy Horse. With “Hold On Magnolia,” Molina reveals his diary foreshadowing his eventual real life death.

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6. Peter Sperger on January 22, 2021 at 11:28 am

   “Be Bob Deluxe” was big in the UK in the 70s, but never crossed over to the US. It’s 70s style larger than life glam and prog rock. The musicianship, especially the guitar playing /tone, is phenomenal. The singing/song writing rivals anything of that era, like finding a lost Bowie, T-Rex, Roxy Music album.

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7. Peter Sperger on January 22, 2021 at 11:42 am

   Jai Paul is from Northwest London. He’s English and Indian and young – this is important because his music screams multi-cultural, attention deficit disorder, laptop. There’s a hundred ideas/sounds and crazy combinations of music types/cultures crammed into a few short minutes. At first listen it’s confusing, overwhelming, perhaps maddening – but over repeat listens the genius is revealed.

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