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By Andrew Flanagan
A wholly useless, unnecessary, and associative review of Count Vesuvius’ debut, self-titled, sledgehammering, and probably only album that will ever exist unless not:
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By Anthony Newes
Maps of Norway are a four-piece band consisting of drums, bass, guitar and vocals. They don’t really have a lead guitar player or a lead singer or a lead anything for that matter.
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By Lewis Kuhlman
X-Ray Hip’s New American Lady is the first album offering from former Delilah’s singer Aaron Seymour in a decade. This new rock and roll band lays the foundation for his lyrics about relationships and life.
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By Anthony Newes
First thing you need to know about this record is: if you’re going to listen to it, you’re probably gonna have some fun. Second thing you ought to know is: if you’re having a fun time, no point in worrying about anything else, just have fun. Permission granted.
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Noticing the trend of blogs getting more hits when mentioning politics or nudity, I couldn’t resist. People are weird that way, and I have to try to cash in on that. Rift 36 Hour Contest #6 - Tonight 10/8 at the Bryant Lake Bowl - 6:00pm. 14 songwriters at this moment are furiously working on writing...
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The Topic is “America”
This can take on a few different slants whether it be political or something funny. I found this list on a website with the actual songs.
www.shoutmouth.com/index.php/news/Top_25_Songs_About_America So it might give you some inspiration.
Have fun with it!
Rift 36 Hour...
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We are trying to condense our work a bit, and you don’t need to hear from us more then once every two weeks anyway. We will posting new stuff every couple days, but this just sums the events and new stuff we have posted. Check it all out and have a great time checking out [...]
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Editors Note - While we at Rift like to stay out of political stuff, we thought this fit. The writer did make several attempts to interview Norm Coleman as well, and maybe we’ll get something on Dean Barkley to make it fair.
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Aspiring short story writer? Submit to Mnartists.org ministories -
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This is a little earlier in the week then we usually get this up, but I figure it was time for some changes. Plus sometimes things happen on a Tuesday or Wednesday and we miss it. Then we are hoping to go to a bi weekly update which will include the events for the next [...]
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Gary Holdsteady talks with Steve Barone of The Hawaii Show, Minnie Indie and now defunct LFTR PLLR.
independentstream.podomatic.com
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Volume One is an Indie Arts and Culture magazine from Eau Claire and they have launched a pretty cool new website. Rift should probably take some lessons from this mag. They seem to have it all together. Now I have to see if I can get some of their web technology for free. Can’t hurt [...]
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Bobby Marsden of Fearless Filmmakers is having an interesting contest, for charity.
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So it’s down to a week to have the new issue finished and to the printer and get Issue #25 done. With all that happening I totally am going to dial in this weeks what’s going on. There is a bunch happening this weekend, so get on out there and we’ll do our best to [...]
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In conjunction with Copycats Media, Rift Magazine is proud to announce the Download Card Music Sample Volume 1.
Featuring 19 local bands, this sampler has 19 great tracks that you can download and listen to.
Here are the bands - Atomic Flea, Aviette, Bella Koshka, Ben Glaros, Brian Just, Charlie Parr...