REVIEW: Built to Spill / Dinosaur Jr. / The Meat Puppets @ Terminal 5

Last night I went to a concert I’d been getting hyped up about for months.  Built to Spill performing their classic 1997 album Perfect From Now On, with two mid-90s staples as opening acts: Dinosaur Jr., AND The Meat Puppets!  It’s like 11th grade all over again!  And for me, musically, that’s more or less [...]

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Just Give Up

According to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry -by way of Slate magazine- that brick of organic spelt and free range apple juice can still eventually kill you.  Say what?  That’s right, Park Slope Food Co-operators, it’s not just pesticide residue and low self-esteem that does damage to the temple that is your [...]

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Hey, remember the 90’s?

They were the best, weren’t they?  A time when the X files didn’t suck.  When Russia did a better job of hiding their resentment of the US.  When spiky bangs and back-to-Africa dashikis were worn non-ironically.  And when John McCain was a chivalrous gentleman. 
“Do you know why Chelsea Clinton is so ugly?” he told a handful of [...]

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