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Charlemagne
We Can Build An Island
Label: Sidecho Records
Madison/Brooklyn/Philly band Charlemagne is impossible to spell on the first take (perhaps like the word porridge? Hmmm?) and nail down with one stereotype worth applying. But that really has nothing to do with anything.
Carl Johns (or Carl-emagne, as we like to call him) came to NYC via Madison, Wisconsin […]

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The History Channel sent us a screener for Lost Book of Nostradamus, but it didn’t arrive before the 2-hour program debut last Sunday, Oct. 28 (which by the way, hit 3.5 million viewers and was the #1 cable show that evening).
Alas, perhaps someone could have predicted we wouldn’t watch it until last night. Essentially, a […]

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Bobaflex
Tales From Dirt Town
Label: TVT Records
Four vocalists harmonizing in rock and roll is usually reserved for Warped bands, but West Virginia’s Bobaflex is better suited for the second stage at Ozzfest. Their new album, Tales from Dirt Town, pulls influence from classic rock and nu-metal.
BUT, the single is entirely wussy Stone Sour “Bother” crap. […]

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