Posts by Lynz Floren
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Dry The River This is a British Folk-Rock band which falls squarely in the neo-folk indie style that is all the rage these days. The main thing you will notice is that lead singer Peter Liddle sounds very much like Brandon Flowers, but with a little more earnestness, occasionally conjuring up a Robert Smith-like voice.…
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Good Old War Like a hip, modern Crosby, Stills & Nash, Good Old War delivers harmony-centric fun folk-rock that keeps growing on me the more I listen to it. The lyrics are memorable and the melodies are catchy. I dare you to get this song out of your head: That song is from their new…
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My Not-So-Secret Love Affair With Counting Crows This is a hard article to write. The reason for this is probably because I suffer from some inner turmoil related to my Counting Crows fan-dom. I have many debates about music, and I often under-represent my admiration for this band because no matter how well I make…
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AMY RAY If someone told me 15 years ago that half of the Folk-Rock duo Indigo Girls would be making proud, angry, and relevant indie-punk music at 47 years of age, I’m not sure what my reaction would’ve been. Well, that is what Amy Ray is doing these days. Ms. Ray is currently on tour…
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SO. You didn’t get to go to SXSW this year? Yeah, neither did I…but that doesn’t stop us from enjoying Austin’s antics in a voyeuristic, web-based sorta way. If you’ve been living under a rock since 1987, maybe you don’t know what SXSW is. In a nutshell, it consists of more music than you could…
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Dead Sara Dead Sara is a 4-piece rock band from LA which I would describe as: If Melissa Etheridge was younger, more energetic and raspier and had a more aggressive Silversun Pickups for a band. All of that is to say that lead singer Emily Armstrong is exciting to watch & listen to and her…
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Hello Yourpopfilter-heads! Want some music? Cool. Electric Guest. I got a chance to catch these guys live a couple weeks ago and damn that was a fun show. A hipster mix of rock, funk and synth-pop, coupled with great sound and a lively stage performance, I was hooked almost immediately. If this video doesn’t make…
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It’s GRAMMY Time! (if you care) This Sunday, Feb 12, is the annual gathering of everyone in the music industry who is out of touch with the reality of most music fans. Sounds fun, huh? Think of it like the first 3 quarters of the super bowl, plus the boring parts of the halftime show,…
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White Collar is a TV show. It is, for the most part, predictable and formulaic. It is also unlikely and implausible. The Popfilter Podcast guys hate it, and probably for these exact reasons. I, however, LOVE it. I started watching the first 3 seasons on Netflix over the holidays, mostly just to see what the…
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NAMM 2012: A Snapshot of a Screwed-Up Music Industry My first experience at the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) trade show was dizzying. Thousands of booths with everything from sheet music to instruments to computer programs and plug-ins. Also about a billion iPads. What struck me about this gathering was how out of touch…
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