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Liquid [Hip] : Divine Fits Unchains A Double-Sided
Most people know that the formation of the Divine Fits can be traced back to Britt Daniel (Spoon) attending a Handsome Furs show and approaching Dan Boeckner (Wolf Parade, Handsome Furs) just to tell Boeckner he had one of the best rock voices he'd ...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 6:38am -07:00T (692 words)
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Liquid [Hip] : Bryce Canyon Is Memorable Earth Art
Although the Grand Canyon in Arizona is the best known canyon in the world, it's Bryce Canyon in Utah that has some of the most striking rock formations in the United States. While hoodoos can be found on every continent, no other rock spires truly co...
Dateline: 2013-06-18 6:53am -07:00T (814 words)
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Liquid [Hip] : Dear Thief Is Dark, Heavy And Heady
There are two ways to take Dear Thief, an impossibly eclectic art rock band out of London. They are either one of the most original bands you've ever heard or a swirling thump and buzz of barely listenable rhythm and noise.
Sometime you might even ...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 6:37am -07:00T (723 words)
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Liquid [Hip] : Joe Hill Rolls NOS4A2 Down The Road
Charles Talent Manx has a gift. He can travel roads that almost nobody knows like The Night Road, Gumdrop Lane, and St. Nicholas Parkway. He can find the dreamlike destinations Lovecraft Keyhole, Pennywise Circus, and Christmasland. And as long as he...
Dateline: 2013-06-14 7:08am -07:00T (806 words)
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Liquid [Hip] : The Almost Finds Fear Inside Of Bones
Aaron Gillespie and The Almost did something few rock bands do. They holed themselves up in a small room at Omni Studios in Nashville for five days and played 11 songs front to back until they had an album. The resulting live studio album, Fear Inside...
Dateline: 2013-06-13 6:08am -07:00T (694 words)
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Liquid [Hip] : Warhammer Quest Takes A Game Turn
While Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition left some people wondering why anyone would ever create a classic turn-based role playing tabletop game without overcomplicating everything, along comes Warhammer Quest. It delivers Dungeons & Dragons style play b...
Dateline: 2013-06-12 7:38am -07:00T (836 words)
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Liquid [Hip] : Queens Of The Stone Age Skip Death
Josh Homme was talking about a sixth Queens Of The Stone Age (a.k.a. QOTSA or Queens) album well before starting Them Crooked Vultures with John Paul Jones and Dave Grohl. Even so, most people assumed that Queens would take a back seat as this new ban...
Dateline: 2013-06-11 6:53am -07:00T (743 words)
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Liquid [Hip] : The Battery Recasts The Zombie Movie
While World War Z is shooting for catastrophic action horror with its $200 million budget, The Battery shot for cathartic dark comedy with a budget of only $6,000. Somehow, the deliberate and plodding indie flick carries a cultish charm that slowly se...
Dateline: 2013-06-10 6:53am -07:00T (840 words)
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Liquid [Hip] : Rogue Wave Lays Nightingale Floors
The Oakland, California, indie rock band headed by Zach Rogue (a.k.a. Zach Schwartz), Rogue Wave, has just put out its most underrated album. While some will still lament the band's departure from the low-key lo-fi that once characterized it or the ch...
Dateline: 2013-06-07 7:37am -07:00T (715 words)
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Liquid [Hip] : Out Of The Easy Is A Spring Sleeper
Out Of The Easy gives more than a lift to Josie Moraine, the protagonist of a deceptively straightforward and wildly engrossing historical fiction set in the 1950s. It gives readers a lift too as an amiable heroine attempts to break the chains of circumst...
Dateline: 2013-06-06 7:08am -07:00T (736 words)
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Liquid [Hip] : Houndmouth Howls From Hills Below
Back in April, Mayor Greg Fischer decreed it "Houndmouth Day" in Louisville, Kentucky. The proclamation coincided with the four-piece folk-rock band opening the concert season there.
It was a pretty big deal for Louisville, taking some ownership ...
Dateline: 2013-06-05 6:23am -07:00T (662 words)
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Liquid [Hip] : The Art League Is A Good Will Pick
"By nurturing the artist, we enrich the community." — The Art League in Alexandria, Virginia
It's a statement that has been one of the guiding principles of The Art League, which has served the greater Washington D.C. metropolitan area since 1954...
Dateline: 2013-06-04 6:23am -07:00T (705 words)
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Liquid [Hip] : Alice In Chains Dusts Off A Dinosaur
Alice In Chains has always been a favorite among the hard luck success stories that broke out of my hometown in the late 80s and early 90s. Looking back now, it doesn't even seem possible that they could catapult themselves so far on the back of t...
Dateline: 2013-06-03 7:08am -07:00T (748 words)
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Liquid [Hip] : David Freed Strikes With Fangs Out
Cordell Logan isn't a typical flight instructor. He is a retired black ops specialist and reluctant private investigator — reluctant because he isn't a professional. Trouble tends to find and force itself on him.
He was forced into solving his fi...
Dateline: 2013-05-31 6:53am -07:00T (813 words)
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Liquid [Hip] : Uncle Acid Returns With Mind Control
When Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats set out to make a drug-drenched horrific sophomore album, they headed to a dilapidated barn. There, three members produced something as sensational as was it was sinister in Blood Lust, a solid second outing from a ps...
Dateline: 2013-05-30 7:23am -07:00T (725 words)
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