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Ron Sexsmith
by Bill Adams

There is a certain default image that most people have in mind
when they think about professional musicians. After years of
glamourized Hollywood gloss overs courtesy of the film industry,
magazines like Rolling Stone and TV shows like “Gene Simmons
Family Jewels”, when the question about how musicians live is put
to the average Joe on the street, he’ll tell you that he envies the
lifestyle of a rock star; they get to sleep late, travel to exotic
locations and have every imaginable chore that the rest of us
struggle with daily handled by a multitude of assistants and other
hangers on in the name of helping to cultivate the creative field. [ more ]

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Festival Survival Guide
by Tamara Holmes

When youth is on your side, summer isn’t fair unless there’s a loud, dusty, sold-out summer festival or four. You know, the kind where you can join Facebook groups about it months in advance, meet all your resulting new mates at the third pole from the left through coordinated webs of text messages and stand in line-ups till your next birthday for everything from entrance, exit, porto-pots and food.
Crowds. Weather. Dirt. Loud. Grimy. Perfect. [ more ]

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Spins
by Bill Adams
Brant Bjork
Punk Rock Guilt
(Dine Alone)

Last year when Brant Bjork and his Bros released Somera Sol, it
found the singer finally making his exit from the alt–stoner rock
box he helped to furnish with Josh Homme in Kyuss for the
grungier climes of Chicago–esque, martini–brandishing sardonic
rock a la Urge Overkill. It worked – audiences cheered and Bjork
seemed to take well to the poppier format. What no one could
have guessed however is that, with Somera Sol, the singer was
simply looking for (and found) another sound to abduct. [ more ]

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