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The latest barrage of hate on the band Liturgy

WR Hakeem Nicks hyperextended his knee against the Washington Redskins: will he play in week 2 versus the Rams? Ronald Martinez/Getty After detailing the New York Giants injury woes heading into the season opener against the Washington Redskins on Sunday, the last thing Giants’ fans want to hear is of another injury. Mike Garafolo, beat [...]

“The South will rise again.” A phrase I heard kicked around by borderline racists, good ol’ southern boys and those who just didn’t know any better all throughout my childhood in southern Virginia (and while we can argue about whether Virginia is really the South, but it really makes no difference to the person who [...]

Last month a few of my college friends and I were talking about music via twitter. The discussion eventually descended into nostalgia over a particular moment when we all sat in a room, listened to a record uninterrupted and then talked about it immediately after: the album listening party. The album listening parties were hosted [...]

One major event I forgot to mention in my previous post about the people I encounter at Hartford is one of much significance: Friday’s Open Mic Night. A night filled with 60s-80s folk and pop songs performed by people who should never, ever sing in public and really awful poetry. Some of you may have [...]

As with many jobs in the service industry, you deal with some strange people. Many of my tweets lately have reflected such weirdos that enter Hartford Coffee Company and the weird things they do. These weirdos have nicknames, but I realize after receiving a few responses from some of you that you don’t have the [...]

Today I spent some time with Steph Plant recording. We put down 14 demos of her songs plus three covers (Joanna Newsom, a song from the Lion King musical, and a Bjork cover) in about 3 hours. We did very good on time and made some decent demos (except for a clock on the wall [...]