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Record Club: Oceanator - Things I Never Said

Record Club: Oceanator – Things I Never Said

Record Club was intended to be a regular feature on this blog where I talked about the records I bought, a love letter to the physical medium and a look into the mind of a life long collector. Then I promptly stopped blogging. Woops.

The last time I wrote one of these was almost 5 years ago. The last time I personally wrote anything on this blog was over 4 years ago. I didn’t fall off the face…

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Hatchet Job: Resuscitating an Epiphone ET-278

Hatchet Job: Resuscitating an Epiphone ET-278

When I was a little kid we had this old broken guitar, it was some kind of student model electric department store guitar that was very likely made in Japan, that use to be my dad’s. I don’t remember many details like the brand or what exactly was wrong with it. I do remember pretending to wail on it at the age of four or five while I left the NES to play the Battletoads theme on a loop as I…

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Scott Troyan’s Band Baseball Cards

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I don’t know where to start with how amazing this is.

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Wild Honey, The Sinclair, 2016

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Our guitarist/friend/brother/main man Andrew came out of open heart surgery like a champ! Apparently the surgeon put on Locktender in the operating room. His comment, “Yea, it was pretty good for a bit, then it became really distracting so we had to turn it off…” Love you, DUDE!

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The Last Contract #1 (of 4) In stores TOMORROW! (January 6th, 2016). Ed Brisson’s (Batman & Robin Eternal, Sheltered) take on a retired hitman who finds himself as the target is a calculated thriller that kept us guessing until the end, and newcomer Lisandro Estherren’s (Tall Tales from the Badlands) noirish art perfectly sets the mood. What It Is: A retired hitman, known only as “The Man,” is forced back into the game when a list of his kills is leaked by a mysterious blackmailer. The list makes targets out of anyone associated with one of the The Man’s previous jobs, not to mention The Man himself. As he fights to protect those the list exposes, The Man sets off to uncover the identity of the blackmailer so he can move on with his new life once and for all, but will the truth ruin those chances forever? Illustrated by Lisandra Estherren Written by Ed Brisson Coloured by Niko Guardia

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This looks like something worth checking out!

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Don’t cry for me, I’m already dead - 2015 we hardly new ye We said goodbye to 2015 and we are getting pumped for this new year. I hope you rang it in safely and had a lot of fun. We have some big plans in the works for the new year and hopefully we will get the ball rolling on those things sooner than later. In the mean time, enjoy Justin’s list of the 25 best albums of 2015.

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this is how you start a new year

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Happy New Year!

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Karoshi Boy at FEST 14 in Gainesville, Florida 10/30/2015

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Karoshi Boy were one of the best bands we saw at Fest this year.

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Top Ten EPs and Singles from 2015 Our rundown of the best short form releases from 2015 is up and ready for your consideration. Do excellent things today. Listen to some good tunes while you do.

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Merry Christmas ya filthy animals! While you wait for Santa to bring you lots of presents, sitting around at your relatives’, eating candy and being bored get caught up on the last couple months of Figureheads. For instance, check out Justin’s great rundown of records that turned 25 this year or those that celebrated their tenth anniversaries.

We also launched a couple new recurring features, in I Drive A Lot Dylan talked about driving to Durham to watch Andrew Jackson Jihad. He also talked at length about the recent repress of Frodus and We Washed Our Weapons in the Sea.

Last but not least, our first piece on the best of 2015 is up with a list of great EPs and singles from this year.

We hope, no matter your situation--whether you are home with your family, working retail or spending time with friends or alone because your family is lousy--that you have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

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No full posts today but I wanted to remind everyone to have a great comic book day. We will hopefully get back into the swing of weekly comics reviews with the new year. Writing year end lists and Christmas shopping has most of our attention lately. Hold tight, we are stepping up our game big time next year.

I finally caught up on all my reading and actually read everything I picked up today instead of putting them aside.

I can’t recommend Descender by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen enough, this issue really delivered the kind of gut punch to the heart that Jeff is known for.

Also, if you didn’t pick up Weirdworld by Sam Humphries and Mike Del Mundo then you should head back out and remedy that.

What was on your pull list this week?

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Record Club: Frodus - And We Washed Our Weapons in the Sea By Dylan Hensley "Oh, it's that record club. The first nine were only a penny. Then they jacked up the price! [breaks down crying] It's not fair! It's not fair, I tells ya!" Record Club will be a recurring feature on not just records I love but a love letter to the physical format. Collecting runs deep in my family, so expect to see lots of cool finds here. "I joined a record club. They hounded me for years." 

For my inaugural "Record Club" post it is only fitting that we take a look at the recently reissued And We Washed Our Weapons in the Sea from DC's Frodus. It's my favorite record of all time, for reasons we will get into later in this post, so you can imagine my excitement opening my door to find this package waiting for me. Ironically, the "certified frustration-free packaging" proved harder to open than a typical LP mailer. Go figure. Keep reading on figureheads ov pop

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I Drive a Lot - Andrew Jackson Jihad at Motorco Music Hall and a BBQ detour by Dylan Hensley For a band like Andrew Jackson Jihad, playing three dates in NC is more like making up for lost time. It's been over two years since the Folk Punk duo(now backed with a full band) have been through NC. This time around they visited us in Wilmington, Durham and Charlotte bringing along Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts and Rozwell Kid. Read about the show and our drive.

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Justin listened to 400+ records that came out in 2005 and narrowed down his 25 favorites. Some long time favorites make the list with a couple surprises. What would top your list? Read the list and tell us your favorites from 2005.

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and I carried these songs like a comfort wherever I'd go - memories of the Tremont Music Hall

and I carried these songs like a comfort wherever I’d go – memories of the Tremont Music Hall

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Click through to read up on 25 great records that came out way back in 1990.