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Remembering Sophie the pop genius
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Music blog Pitchfork reported Scottish pop composer and producer Sophie had died in a tragic accident in Athens, Greece on Jan. 30 at the age of 34. Sophie whose name is stylized mononymously was reportedly climbing up an unspecified incline to get a better look at the full moon before slipping and falling.
It’s tough to overstate Sophie’s influence on pop music and culture from the past decade. You can hear it in the high-octane, technicolored sheen of contemporary radio pop and TikTok-core; you can sense it in the innumerable eulogies that swept over social media on the day she died, both from exalted publications like
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Band Profile: iwrestledabearonce
This is iwrestledabearonce.
Messed up band names are most definitely a sign of pure genius, and iwrestledabearonce delivers upon such assumptions.
iwrestledatrannyonce but that is something between me and the Nevada State Police.
iwrestledabearonce play a damaged, schizophrenic type of metalcore that shifts more gears than a Louisiana trucker on Mexican meth.
They claim a diverse range of influences, as reflected in their delivery, from such bands as Dillinger Escape Plan, Radiohead, and Bjork.
Conceived in Shreveport, LA in 2007, the band found themselves signed to mega-metal label Century Media by 2008 and dropping their debut full length, “
It’s All Happening” in 2009.
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December 8, 2020
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EXPERT LEVEL SKA PUNK: Though 2020 has been one hellacious bastard of a slog, new Less Than Jake music somehow makes things a little better, especially when it’s released as this year mercilessly comes to an end unless we wake up on January 1 in some type of a
Groundhog Day situation, which, given how these last 12 months have played out, is a real possibility. But if that’s the case, at least we have some new Less than Jake music as a soundtrack to those never-ending days.
Silver Linings, the band’s ninth full-length and first ever release without co-founder and drummer Vincent “Vinnie” Fiorello, who left the band in 2018, is a refreshing blast of classic ska punk, something we all need right about now since the world has gone to hell in a handbasket. With