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Progressive Rock 31-Day Challenge (Week Two)
Amazing music from week 2. If I could manage to stay in Atlanta for more than 2 days at a time, I might actually have the opportunity to post about these phenomenal albums in a timely manner. Alas....
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Prog Rock 31-Day Challenge (Week One)
Okay, I just had to remind myself that this is a month-long Progressive Rock music review, not a personal diary entry. Thus, I’ve spared you fine folks the Grown-Ass Woman’s (grown ass-woman’s?)...
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March Challenge: 31 Days of Progressive Rock
I was going to postpone this Progressive Rock month-long challenge until April. The January Norwegian Metal and February Instrumental Metal challenges were both wildly successful for me: I exposed...
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Instrumental Metal 28-Day Challenge (Week Four)
At last, some semblance of being close to caught up — not just on this website, but on life in general — is in my foreseeable future! No more snowstorms or ice storms or earthquakes or Viking...
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Instrumental Metal 28-Day Challenge (Week Three)
The PNAS ship is back in port and, for better or worse (Hint: It’s for worse! Take me back to the ocean breeze and all the amazing music and the sunshine!), I am once again connected to the internet...
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Instrumental Metal 28-Day Challenge (Week Two)
February has been an utterly bizarre month, with an ice storm and earthquake in Georgia, an impulsive trip to Orlando, and an upcoming four-day long prog rock/metal festival at sea being a few of the...
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Magazine Lyric Art: Haken’s “The Mountain”
And… we’re back! Jolly was our official breakout band of 2013, but in their absence, Haken would’ve been the obvious choice. Similarly, in drafting our Top 20 albums of 2013, Haken ranked as high as...
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Instrumental Metal 28-Day Challenge (Week One)
While the listening part of this 28-day Instrumental Music Challenge is right on schedule, alas this week’s write-up is a day or two behind. On the plus side, we’ve started a monthly reading...
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February Book Mini-Challenge
As noted at the start of this February’s instrumental music challenge, I’ve been focusing on quantifying and documenting my daily and long-term progress with respect to pursuing or abiding by the...
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Norwegian Metal 31-Day Challenge (Week Five)
We’ve made it to the final week of the Norwegian metal challenge! We already posted the introduction to our February music challenge (28 days of instrumental metal and jazz fusion), and monthly book...
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February Challenge: 28 Days of Instrumental Metal
A few insights on these month-long challenges: 1. It turns out that the “challenge” structure with weekly wrap-ups is a great way to hold myself accountable. If I got behind schedule one day, I’d be...
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Magazine Lyric Art: Protest the Hero’s “Volition”
So we’ve already posted a couple of recycled magazine art tributes to some pretty fantastic progressive metal albums over the past few weeks: TesseracT, Leprous, and Skyharbor have all made...
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Norwegian Metal 31-Day Challenge (Week Four)
AbWeek #4 of the 31-Day Norwegian Metal Challenge has wrapped up, and between this week and the previous three weeks, it is amazing how much outstanding new music we’ve discovered. Since, as usual,...
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Magazine Lyric Art: Skyharbor’s “Blinding White Noise”
The first two installations of this series of recycled magazine art (TesseracT’s Altered State and Leprous’s Coal) were tributes to our #1 and #2 albums of 2013. We’re changing it up a little bit for...
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Norwegian Metal 31-Day Challenge (Week Three)
We finished Week 3 of the 31-Day Norwegian Metal Challenge, and I’m still stoked about it! My current fixation with Norway is random, but it’s been a fun and edifying learning experience; in addition...
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Magazine Lyric Art: Leprous’s “Coal”
We recently posted our first recycled magazine art album tribute — to TesseracT’s Altered State, probably no big surprise there — and you can click through that link if you’d like to check out those...
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Norwegian Metal 31-Day Challenge (Week Two)
Our somewhat-comprehensive 31-day exploration of Norwegian metal/progressive bands continues on with week #2 of January complete! For further details on where we’ve been and what’s ahead, please see...
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Magazine Lyric Art: TesseracT’s “Altered State”
About a year ago, someone apparently decided it was a good idea to subscribe me to a bizarre array of magazines: W Magazine (art/fashion), US Weekly (celeb gossip), Shape (women’s fitness), and...
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Norwegian Metal 31-Day Challenge (Week One)
I’ve been thinking a bit about the content posted on this website and whether (or to what extent) it will be modified in the coming months. The posts that receive the most page views and the search...
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Top 20 Albums of 2013
The Top 20 Albums of 2013, in a pretty picture format. As a bonus, below we have 5 glaring omissions, 6 solid records that got dropped because of the bands’ respective prior successes (seriously), and...
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