Arts & Living
A call to arms for music positivity
Regardless your genre, hold true to that first concert moment […]
Articles by Paul Demerritt
Arts & Living
In Defense of OutKast
If you’ve been paying any attention at all to the shifting tides and trends of social media, you may have noticed that Atlanta luminaries OutKast have recently played their first show in nearly a decade […]
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Handy Guide To Your Future Ill-Advised Record Store Purchases: For Broke College Students, By A Broke College Student
The right way to spend frivolously! […]
Arts & Living
How the Wu-Tang Clan abandoned the struggle
The shifting modes of digital music distribution have put strain on record labels and musicians in ways never imagined before the dawn of the Internet. Artists and the people who manage them constantly try to […]
Arts & Living
The top five bands that really need to die already
In an interview with NPR, actor Bryan Cranston once said that he was glad that “Breaking Bad” ended while fans still wanted more of him, instead of everyone dreading seeing his face onscreen. The same […]
Arts & Living
The obituary of Oderus Urungus
Forty-three billion years after being assembled on his home planet of Scumdogia, the master of debauchery, the prince of nihilism most fondly known as Oderus Urungus–frontman of shock rock demigods GWAR–has passed on.
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Daniel Johnston and the search for sincerity
Before me, an aging legend loses all grip on reality. His hands shake, his sheet music flies off the stand, his entire body aches to fly out of his skin. Yet, amidst the complete breakdown […]
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From grassroots to Grammy: the unlikely rise of Snarky Puppy
Recently, I was standing in a sea of the most diverse audience I’d ever seen in Atlanta—young and old, black and white, dreadlocks and crew cuts, polos and dashikis, all tightly packed in a sold […]
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Blood Circus: The Grunge forefathers nobody wanted
Sometimes, lost in between the pages of history books, our forefathers wade in obscurity. Like sleeping giants, they lumber on in silence while the histories they authored ignore their creators. Blood Circus is grunge’s sleeping giant.
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Shut up and put in those damn earplugs
The first time I ever experienced the beautiful catharsis of unrelenting noise was seeing excellent post-hardcore band Cursive. That initial encounter with the glory of triple digit decibels was unforgettable. As I glided out of […]
