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This Week in Under-Known Christian-ish Rock
Ever since I decided to stop trying to know everything about new music (I really recommend this; it’s very liberating), I’ve been able to focus on my favorite genre, which the good people of ImageUpdate recently made fun of me for: “Recording Artists Who Kinda Sound Like They Might Be Christians.” I thought I might spill a little digital ink about the....
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He’s My Elvis
For a few months, I wrote an album-review column for a daily newspaper in Northern California, which I pretentiously titled “Synapse to Synapse: Reviews of Recently Released Popular Music.” The subtitle was the most accurate description I could think of for the column, though....
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Headphones
I would have fallen in love with music in any case, but headphones hastened the process. My aqua transistor radio, a nearly constant childhood companion, was fine as a basic transmitter of tinny, monaural sound. But it was woefully lacking in, shall we say, sonic nuance. And so, early in my high school years....
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Joining the Chinese Heavy Metal Band
I knew that there was rock music in China, and I was determined to get as involved in it as I could—which turned out to be not very much, since I have the Chinese vocabulary of a three-year-old child. It doesn’t help that Chinese people are, as a rule, very polite and complimentary to foreigners, so if you....
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The Calcination of Scout Niblett
Emma Louise “Scout” Niblett likes to play with preconceptions. Raised in Nottingham, England, she takes her nickname and inspiration from the southern American heroine of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Frequently and lazily described as a folksinger, she’ll lull you with a sweetly demure....
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