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Rough Mix Issue #23: Blood, sweat, and songwriters

Music The Low Anthem, "Blood and Altar" I don't know much about Providence, RI's The Low Anthem—I encountered them on...
May 23, 2020Aaron Rester
Music
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Rough Mix Issue #22: The Wild Onion

Music Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment, "Sunday Candy" This week's newsletter turns out to be a bit of a...
May 8, 2020Aaron Rester
Music
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Rough Mix Issue #21: Swing Training

Music Casey Bill Weldon, "Guitar Swing" I'm guessing we could all use a pick-me-up these days, and there's no way this...
April 24, 2020Aaron Rester
Music
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Rough Mix Issue #20: Live Streams and Slow Fades

Music John Prine, "Angel from Montgomery" John Prine, as probably everyone reading this will already be aware, died this week...
April 10, 2020Aaron Rester
Music
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Rough Mix Issue #19: Pandemic at the Disco!

Music It's only been two weeks since the last newsletter, but that sure does seem like a very, very long...
March 27, 2020Aaron Rester
Music
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Rough Mix Issue #18: Some welcome distractions

Music Adia Victoria, "Different Kind of Love" I keep seeing Nashville-based singer-songwriter Adia Victoria's style being described as "gothic blues,"...
March 13, 2020Aaron Rester
Music
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My Top Albums of the Decade

Generally, I tend to think that things like "Best of the Decade" lists are ways for lazy editors (and bloggers)...
December 21, 2009Aaron Rester
Music
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My Top 5 Albums of 2008

While I downloaded or purchased physical copies of over 50 albums in 2008, only about 20% of them were actually...
January 2, 2009Aaron Rester
Music
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Bollywood 101

As regular readers of this site know, in a former life I was something of a scholar of Bollywood cinema...
April 16, 2008Aaron Rester
Miscellaneous
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Lost & Lonesome

Last Saturday, fellow Lost Cartographer Gabrielle Schafer and I played a short three-song acoustic set at the Charleston as the...
February 15, 2008Aaron Rester
Music
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