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Personality Goes A Long Way

Josh Ritter

Have you ever met someone who always has a smile on his face? Someone who you can’t quite figure out what the hell he has to be happy about? But that smile… that smile never disappears and in the end it somehow makes you happy, too.

Last night at the Southgate House in Newport, Kentucky, I met a man that fits that description. A man who, if you listen to what he has to say, sounds like he’s rather pissed. Yet there Josh Ritter stood, grinning ear to ear from the moment he bounded onto the stage to the moment he left. And the longer I watched him, the bigger my smile grew.

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Choosing Words Carefully

While NME and the rest of the British press have been crowing about the second coming taking the form of the Arctic Monkeys, the Monkeys may in fact turn out to be the Anti-Christ (if it hasn't already been revealed…

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Put Some Ice Tea in Your Bottle of Jack

David Lee Roth must be on one hell of a bender right now. Roth was hired to replace Howard Stern in 7 markets this past January when Stern signed a contract with Sirius satellite radio... but Diamond Dave was effectively…

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High Five!

Mont SleetsYou may have noticed from our sidebar to the right that today, April 20, 2006, is National High Five Day. Created by Conor Lastowka over at San Diego Serenade with his friends Sam Miotke and Wynn Walent, NH5 Day doesn’t have any subversive meaning other than spreading the joy of the high five. And maybe to recognize the inventor of the high five, former Murray State basketball star, Mont Sleets.

The founders put out a call for high-five-themed original music a few months back and have the tracks posted on their site. There’s also a Rhapsody playlist with some more familiar tunes.

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Blackest of Mountains

I have the tendency to find out about awesome albums years after they first come out, which happily isn't always my fault. I wasn't alive when Oar came out, I don't think I had any money when Marquee Moon was…

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