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Best Albums You’ve Never Heard Of: The Rentals – Seven More Minutes #moog @therentals

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Best Albums You’ve Never Heard Of: The Rentals – Seven More Minutes Some records fit us like a glove, regardless of whether or not the lyrics or narrative match up with our life experience. These albums transcend normal connective barriers on the basis that the content has transferable relatability. For me, The Rentals second LP release: Seven More Minutes is that type of album. Whereas a lot of the album deals with a seemingly ongoing long term off and on again relationship with an eccentric American man (front man Matt…

Best Albums You’ve Never Heard Of: Codeine Velvet Club @jonfratelli @LouHickey

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Best Albums You’ve Never Heard Of: Codeine Velvet Club Brief derail before I actually start: I think Codeine Velvet Club sounds like the kind of place where you would expect Andy Warhol and Lou Reed to be smoking a joint and laughing at people while they simultaneously had an intellectual conversation about the minutia of detail in the art design of various modern day bubble gum wrappers. OK, but seriously, let’s try this again… Best Albums You’ve Never Heard Of: Codeine Velvet Club I have never stated as such on my…

Best Albums You’ve Never Heard Of: David Duchovny #HellOrHighwater

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Best Albums You’ve Never Heard Of: David Duchovny #HellOrHighwater A while back I wrote a piece on Robert Downey Jr’s 2004 foray into the music scene: “The Futurist“. I enjoyed its blunt honesty and sincere delivery from the acclaimed thespian, as well as the jazz/pop standard stylings of the music. During that time, I had heard that David Duchovny had recorded an album as well, but just stored that little nugget away for a later date. A week ago, I finally listened to a couple of the tracks from Duchovny’s…

Best Albums You’ve Never Heard Of: The Futurist by Robert Downey Jr. #TheFuturist

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Robert Downey Jr. is primarily  internationally famous for his acting in such films as Chaplin, Air America, Chances Are, Iron Man, Sherlock Holmes and more. What you may not know about RDJ, is that he is also a gifted singer and song writer. He has performed on a handful of soundtracks including Ally Mcbeal, and the Singing Detective, to name a few. To date, he has only released one full album, The Futurist way back in 2004. On the surface, The Futurist is a traditional pop album with jazz, blues…