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I found this interesting fragment in the Culture Of None archives:  It’s an elementary school assignment – clearly a “choose a career and research it” theme paper – bearing the date April 4, 1984.   I was a 5th grader.

I’m guessing I wrote this one mostly from intuitive observation and with minimal research, so it [...]

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Satchel was an enigmatic post-grunge entry into the roster of Epic’s more adventurous (i.e. less profitable) signings.
They were quietly promoted as a side project of a side project (Brad) that coupled Shawn Smith’s soulful croon and keyboards with a rock ensemble given star-power by Pearl Jam’s Stone Gossard.
I’ll admit that my initial curiosity about Brad [...]

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It seemed as if Stressball had been long forgotten in the sludge metal canon, but some late night Googling has revealed otherwise.

The band has one of those names that can easily be buried in non-relevant search results.  However, I was able to find a bit of coverage at the VonFrostBlog, and (of course) there are [...]

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This EP was released in Detroit around 1997.  I don’t even have the original disc anymore – just this CD-R burn from many years ago.  The cover art was basically a photo of a turntable platter with a bunch of scattered spraypaint caps and other B-Boy paraphenelia – very old school.   It was a decidedly [...]

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I couldn’t help being a Veldt fan from the very start – early press described  the Chavis brothers driving a jeep under rural North Carolina skies, their in-dash mixtape jubilantly positioning Cocteau Twins next to Public Enemy.  It was the delirious  “pre-grunge” era, and hip hop beats & shoegaze seemed a brilliant fusion of audio [...]

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I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of positive response to my recent post praising the Bloomsday full-length CD ‘The Day The Colors Died‘.  The band apparently not only has a lasting legacy of enthusiastic fans – but they’ve managed the feat with only two releases.
Their second and final recording is this self-titled five song [...]

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I’ve owned this one for quite some time…and for whatever reason, I just figured that most KOLS fans had already heard it.
It’s a rather humble and endearing affair – the disc has an ink/paint logo stamp on the label side of the CD-r, and the little “photo” of Ben Barnett’s childhood is a color laser [...]

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Culture Of None isn’t known for having eyes fixed on the “new release” shelves – that should be rather apparent by now.  I am far more intrigued by the growing wealth of amusements out there; the seemingly endless stuffs of entertainment that expand and diversify even as I explore them.
No, I don’t really have a clue what came [...]

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