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(Un)Covered: What I Like About You


“What I Like About You” Writers: Wally Palmar, Mike Skill, Jimmy Marinos Original Release Date: February 1980 Despite being released thirty-six years ago, “What I Like About You” has some staying power—it’s frequently used in pop culture to this day! Maybe you’re more familiar with the Lillix cover that was used in Freaky Friday and as the theme song to Amanda Bynes’ hilarious (and short-lived) show, What I Like About You, but the original song by The Romantics was a huge hit back when it first came out. And while I wouldn’t say they were one-hit wonders, personally I can’t… Read more »

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Callwood at the Cooler #2


“Callwood at the Cooler” is a new bi-weekly column which will see me waxing lyrical about events in the news, pop culture, and the etc.

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SXSW 2015 Diary: A Subculture in Search of a Subculture


Thursday, March 19th I flew into South by Southwest this afternoon. Tonight, I strode 6th Street. amid the scene here in Austin. I felt a tension between, and within, the musicians, attendees, and the city. The dichotomy is an inclination toward indie values, opposed by the gravitation of commercialism. I realize this as I happen on IFC’s Fairgrounds, which features a music stage, interactive attractions such as a Velcro wall, and food trucks and a beer stand. It’s like a festival within a festival and it is a microcosm of SXSW. It’s an insular fantasy realm manifested by marketers and… Read more »

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Thursday Ten: A Not-So-Traditional Christmas


When you’re trapped in the hellish nightmare of a busy mall in December, it’s not unusual for the tinny sound of Christmas music to make you wish you would get trampled to death by a thousand frantic shoppers just to put an end to your suffering. Thankfully, hearing your favorite bands cover the same songs has the opposite effect.

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Tuesday Ten: Musical 180’s


Even if you’re convinced that a band changing their sound is the worst thing that’s ever happened to you, it’s perfectly natural for someone’s music to develop and shift from album to album. But every once in a while, those shifts are so dramatic that the early work ends up sounding like it was released by an entirely different band than the more recent material.

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Panic! At The Disco ignite a frozen winter night in Minneapolis


The temperature outside the Skyway Theater the night of the Panic! At The Disco’s Minneapolis show was a frigid zero degrees with a wind chill plummeting into the negatives. But that didn’t stop the hardy concertgoers of the Upper Midwest from filing up the venue before the show even started – just in time for Brooklyn’s X Ambassadors and California’s The Colourist to ignite the frozen winter evening with a fire that didn’t die down until long after Panic!’s headlining set had ended.

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