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Toad The Wet Sprocket’s third album, Fear, wasn’t expected to be a massively successful record. We have a lengthy discussion with leader Glen Phillips about the making of the band’s masterpiece, and the price of sudden and unexpected success. Read more
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Toad The Wet Sprocket’s third album, Fear, wasn’t expected to be a massively successful record. We have a lengthy discussion with leader Glen Phillips about the making of the band’s masterpiece, and the price of sudden and unexpected success. Read more
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One of the best Dallas bands ever, Tripping Daisy always had fun, interesting things to say, and this, their debut video, rightly won the hearts of the viewers. Read more
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Guitarist Kaki King presents a digital collection of covers and rarities, and it serves as both a great introduction to a very talented artist, and an interesting portrait of an artist at work. Read more
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Some bands are always going to reside on the peripheral of the greater scene. People know the big names–The Beatles, Sex Pistols, Nirvana–but not as many know Gerry and the Pacemakers, Buzzcocks, or Mudhoney–all bands of quality, but ones that have a smaller and just as great a following. Such is the case with Swimming Read more
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Dallas-based alt-rockers The Toadies made a major impact with their debut full length, Rubberneck, released in 1994 and propelled to commercial and critical success thanks in part to a three-pronged attack: a great video for the song “Possum Kingdom,” plenty of radio play for it and single “Tyler,” and incessant touring. They toured for Read more
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The college-rock explosion of the mid-to-late 1980s was a fertile, creative time, even though the genre gets written out of the rock history books, thanks to the burgeoning “alternative rock” scene and subsequent “grunge explosion.” College-rock bands were melodic, a little rock, and not particularly ashamed of showing some ambition–after all, R.E.M. and 10,000 Maniacs obtained success while still Read more
The Recoup 