Blake Maddux
“Yes, America might have been a nation of Christians, but that was different from being formally a Christian nation.”
1965 was the year in which the leading artists in American and British popular music pushed themselves beyond making albums that mixed covers with subpar originals.
The most important takeaway from American Justice 2014 is the potential danger, from Epps’s perspective, of the growing influence of Justice Alito.
“I think a lot of people around town are fairly aware of the Red Sox’s checkered history in terms of race.”
“If you’re dead you won’t have a movement, and guns kept people alive. In particular, kept people who made the movement alive.”
Neuroplasticity is a bit more fleshed-out than its predecessor, but the album retains ample amounts of the slow to mid-tempo spookiness that Al Spx calls “doom soul.”
So how do four young guys successfully build upon two masterworks while simultaneously facing possible enervation due to record label woes and botched stateside promotion?
A People’s History of the New Boston takes the “grassroots” view and tries to give overdue credit to the role that community activists and neighborhood residents played in building the “New Boston.”
The under-appreciated singer-songwriter Tommy Keene is equal parts an aficionado and creator of pop music.
Since then, they have remained as indefatigable as ever in terms of writing, recording, and touring.
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