Breaking Bad get-ups, chunky crotchet hats, boxing matches in the pit at Battle of the Bands. These are all quirks that highlight Couch Dog’s unwavering ability to bring high energy to each of their live performances. Couch Dog’s debut album, How to Ruin Your Life Fast dropped on Friday, May 19! We sat down with…
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Tuesday, January 24. 4:45 PM. A line of guitars lean up against the wall of Retrocade Tattoo on Santa Rosa Street, San Luis Obispo. In front of them, wires are thrown loosely in all directions and two amps sit in gaps among the rat’s nest the cords create. A shorter man wearing a dark sweatshirt…
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For years, post-9/11 country music has dominated the airwaves and the charts thanks to exclusive play on country radio. Now, thanks to streaming services and the democratization of music creation, this is beginning to change. Zach Bryan’s unusual path to stardom is proof. If you’re reading this, you might listen — boastfully and unironically —…
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Being a woman is awesome. Mosh pits are fucking sick. As a woman in the pit, I love seeing other women, femmes, and nonbinary people in the pit, too. This article is an ode to you all, I stay amazed. Participating in the pit is a powerful way to enforce your own boundaries. The mosh…
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If you’re like me, at the end of every summer, you have a yearly scheduled heartbreak. School is looming, and deadlines become real, the first being your summer love. So, you made it through fall, now winter rears its lonely frost, and suddenly Target is selling heart shaped candy again. Maybe you’re over it. Or…
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SLO Brew’s main stage room was sparsely populated with eager attendees awaiting a mythical, mystical septet. The seven Seattle musicians delayed taking the stage, knowing a wave of stoned 420 merrymakers would overrun the concert space a few minutes late. High Pulp drummer Bobby Granfelt cleansed the gathering of the common show-going curse of standing…
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Everything begins and ends with soil. It’s kind of like, as soil scientist Andrew Kurtz calls it, “the skin of the earth” – and with no skin, you would completely fall apart. You would also get too hot or too cold way too easily. Needless to say, it would be an extremely unpleasant experience. Unfortunately,…
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Remember being little and thinking you could be whatever you wanted to be? I grew up wanting to be an artist, but somewhere along the way I adopted the belief that I could never actually go anywhere with it; that in order to be a successful artist, I would have to sell myself to capitalism,…
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Everyone already knows Lady Goodman. He’s the guy who hauled ass through the high school parking lot in his lifted, oversized pickup truck hounding the premises despite receiving his GED the year prior. He’s got all of David Wooderson’s creepiness without a sniff of Matthew McConaughey’s coolness. Despite all there is to loath about Lady,…
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Over a year has passed since the murder of George Floyd, an incident that sparked a global protest in favor of in the already established Black Lives Matter movement. Since then, organizations and BIPOC leaders have worked relentlessly to protect and bring justice for Black Lives by reshaping the flow of the political process: demanding…
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