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As a much smaller Wings fan, it's better than the island.

And I'll second the Hatebreed shirt thing. I briefly (as in for 2.5 months right after high school) played for a hardcore band and the singer would never shut the fuck up about Hatebreed. Ever. The bassist and I would trade riffs off each other and he'd throw out anything that didn't sound enough like Hatebreed.
 
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As a much smaller Wings fan, it's better than the island.

And I'll second the Hatebreed shirt thing. I briefly (as in for 2.5 months right after high school) played for a hardcore band and the singer would never shut the fuck up about Hatebreed. Ever. The bassist and I would trade riffs off each other and he'd throw out anything that didn't sound enough like Hatebreed.
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Hatebreed was considered lame when I was in a metalcore band around 2005/2006, but my friends wouldn't shut up about Norma Jean and Fear Before The March Of Flames which aren't much better. It was more of a scenecore vibe when I was in that scene.
 
It seems like rock/metal music really became ass in the mid '00s (with a few exceptions) after a promising stretch from '01-'03ish. Worst concert I've ever been to was a Taste of Chaos (the screamo/metalcorne, Winter version of Warped) that I got free tickets to in '06.

That was probably when I was deepest into classic rock so high school me was probably looking to get OK Boomer'd (before anyone knew what that was).
 
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Pretty sweet. Where do I sign up?
 
This is too plausible. Dive bar next to the hooker hotel right downtown would totally bump Mike Love or the Ataris for this.
 
"But we're not really whiny little bitches," whined Five Finger Deathpunch.
 
I think this might warrant a thread, but I don't know if anyone listened to her here. I know Lemonade was a big hit a few years ago and she's been a producer for artists like Madonna, Nikki Minaj, Lady Gaga, and Charlie XCX, but her debut album is one of my favorite albums of the 2010's.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/30/entertainment/sophie-death-gbr-intl/index.html

34 is so young and I thought Oil Of Every Pearl's Un-Insides was possibly the most unique and exciting pop album in 20 years and I was so excited to see what she would've done next. The mix of hard EDM, experimental, noise and ambient music with traditional pop melodies was so cool sounding. I remember having a sense of just hearing something that sounds like nothing I have heard before and that's so rare in music these days. I had a feeling Sophie's followup album was going to be huge and she would be one of the next big figures in pop music possibly both with her solo career and as a producer. This is heartbreaking.

RIP Sophie Xeon
 
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Tony Bennett has Alzheimer's, per an article in current issue of AARP Magazine. Diagnosed in 2016 but I guess singing and touring has staved off some of the worse symptoms and he's got another duet album with Lady Gaga coming out.

Hell of a run for him. Hell of a run!
 
This is stupid, my friend had it on the 90s station and "Mo' Money Mo' Problems" by Biggie came on. They commented on the sampling and I didn't say anything and dissected wtf the 3 were talking about when it finally clicked, Diana Ross's "I"m Coming Out" is sampled.

I googled, song was released in 1997. So for 24 years I was completely oblivious to this and have heard both songs multiple times.
 
Found my copy of Guitar Romantic and am really missing me some Exploding Hearts.
 
Is that the Steve Braband whose wife used to produce Katie Nolan's podcast, or is that name more common than I'd realized?
 
I heard Andrea Bocelli's version of "Hallelujah" randomly today for the first time. I'm a fan of Bocelli's work, not sure how I missed this one until now. He mixes in some, what I think is his native Italian, and really shows the range of his voice. Damn powerful piece of music.
 
Definitive history of early '90s kids rap beefs.

Beef At the Playground? The 90s Kiddie Rap Wars

Beef. It's a sometimes-harsh aspect of the Hip-Hop landscape. In the early 1990s, a handful of artists became embroiled in a beef that made no headlines; even if you remember the era, you may not have even known that this beef existed. But it did.
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