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Blogging Resumes June 1st.

And this, my friends, is why I will never make it as a professional blogger (or any sort of blogger in general, actually). In my defense I’ve had a lot of personal stuff going on and my non-musical and non-internet life has been taking off like crazy so I’m tried to find a modicum [...]

May Is For Women

“A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.” – Jane Fonda
May is for women… around here, at least.
I’ve been getting a lot of submissions from female-fronted bands and I’ve been finding quite a few great female artists on my own. Now, I’ll admit that I don’t necessarily pay [...]

How To Save A Life (2005) by The Fray

The Fray
How To Save A Life
2005, Epic
piano rock, alt rock
½
I won’t deny that I’m a fan of piano rock, but that genre requires careful craft work before the song edges from ‘respectable’ into ‘nonsensical sentimental sap.’. Strangely enough, The Fray manages to cover both types in their full-length debut, with no middle ground. Sometimes, [...]