Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam
Album: I Had a Dream that You Were Mine
Track: In a Blackout
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My Favorite Nine Albums of 2016
Frankie Cosmos and Long Neck Free at Stevens Institute Hoboken
There are three bands playing at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken for FREE tonight presented by WCPR – Castle Point Radio & Theta Phi Alpha – Gamma Chi.
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Jeremy Lin at the New Yorker Festival
“People ask me when the last time I was happy. I genuinely almost always tell them Linsanity. I’m not joking. For two weeks, that was the best,” exclaimed restauranteur David Chang on Bill Simmons’ podcast in May (1 hour, 9 minute mark).
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An Interview with Pinegrove’s Evan Stephens Hall
Montclair NJ holds a lot of memories me. A childhood friend grew up there, so I know the town well. They converted an old movie theatre into a music venue called the Wellmont Theatre With a capacity of 2,600 it felt like the (now defunct) Roseland Theatre or Hammerstein Ballroom got airlifted and plopped into suburban NJ, plus some of the old-timey movie theatre flourishes.
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Michigan State Commit Miles Bridges and Other Prospects at the PrimeTime Shootout
The PrimeTime Shootout is a high school invitational tournament that started in 1976. Players that have appeared include LeBron James Carmelo Anthony, and Dwight Howard. Ever since the Nets moved to Brooklyn, I missed my fix of watching basketball in person.
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My Favorite Tracks & Albums of 2015
One of my favorite things about discovering new bands is figuring out who their influences are. When I figure that out, it takes me back to the time when I was listening to those particular bands. These four bands had me mesmerized this year. I hope you appreciate them as much as I did.
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An Interview with Radiator Hospital’s Sam Cook-Parrott
Philadelphia’s music scene is one of the most vibrant in the country. Underneath the more higher profile acts War on Drugs and Kurt Vile in a scene in the truest sense of the word. Radiator Hospital play short low-fi power pop songs that run around two minutes. I spoke with frontman Sam Cook-Parrott about his influences, the Philly scene, and his views on the current state of the music industry.
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Breakdown of the 2015-16 NBA National TV Schedule
America — meet Anthony Davis. With 11 more nationally televised games than last season, Brow has single-handedly propelled the New Orleans Pelicans to a total of 21 games (five on TNT, eight on ESPN, and another eight on NBA TV).
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Jeopardy Had an NCAA Champs Category
Jeopardy had a March Madness theme tonight, but only the NCAA Champs category had actual basketball questions.
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My Favorite Albums of 2014 Include a lot of Philly Bands
I never felt I listened to enough new albums in a year to justify putting a best albums of the year list. It seems everyone writes one, including two my friends Eric and Kevin — both lists of which I’ve discovered a lot of new bands. I wasn’t a fan of either of theirs this year, and I let them know — so here’s my response, in no particular order.
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