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Aqua and Gabba review, 1997 (opens the original)
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19 Metal Album Reviews, 2013 (opens the original)
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Eggs on the Jersey Side (opens the original)
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Family Values Tour review, 1998 (opens the original)
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Concert reviews are, more often than not, the dullest subspecies of music writing — It’s just really hard to deviate from the reportage formula (and if I remember right, Spin editors at the time were really into Journalism 101 concepts like “nut graphs” — an almost guaranteed shortcut to killing prose.) Even back in the days when I still could motivate myself to go see live music (in basketball stadiums no less), I tended to avoid them. Still, I managed to write a handful I’m halfway proud of. T
Olivia Newton-John review, 1988 (opens the original)
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Well past her commercial and (to what extent she had one) critical prime here already. A decent record, though! After suffering through three decades of on-and-off breast cancer — not to mention her anti-vaxxer/cannibis-farmer daughter convincing her not to take the coronavirus vaccine — she finally succumbed in August 2022, at age 73. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uEmO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-po
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