David Baldwin Rocking the Climb Climbing the Rock
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The Dirty Word That Might Be Rewiring Humanity. (opens the original)
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Is Loud Good? (My Eardrums Would Like a Word) (opens the original)
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In Raleigh, we have this music festival called Hopscotch that’s been going on for 14 or 15 years now. It’s kinda our ACL, though smaller and more manageable. It is pretty great, really fun, and a time for the music, listener, and bar communities to come together and throw all sorts of adjacent day and night party shows chock full of local artists.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bLSO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2F
Who Says There’s No Good New Music Anymore (opens the original)
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I hear people say it all the time, there’s no good new music anymore. I have two words for those people, shut the hell up.Okay, seriously, there’s so much good music all the time it’s hard to keep up with it. Sometimes it’s something fresh off the presses and sometimes your new music is just music from the last 10 years you’ve never heard.I’ve had one of those months where a ton of great music that is new to me has just washed over the transom and started to sink my boat because I can’t listen t
The Secret to the Universe in Curse Words (opens the original)
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In his book, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams said that the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything is, tada, 42. I think I have a better answer, and it’s two of them, as it turns out.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" hei
Nobody Hates Me More Than Me. (opens the original)
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One of the benefits of age is looking back and having perspective on your life- the ups, the downs, the “man, I wish I could have that one back.” For me, in particular, relationships. I still will lie awake some nights and think, “Oh, god, I was such an asshole.”<sourc
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