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January, 2011

Sweden

By MaryAnn Bayer
If there is a band named Sweden out there, oops sorry dudes, but this is not about you.  This week’s BOTW is a country, not a band and its is SWEDEN.
Lately, if I hear a band and I like it, 90% of the time the band is from Sweden. I’ve been on a [...]

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Nails

By MaryAnn Bayer
Nails and Other hotly anticipated goodies…
Ugh, I have really been sucking lately as far as keeping this column current. The new year will be different man! The year 2011, I am gonna pull it all together and stop procrastinating, stop all the jack- assing around and get down to the business of telling [...]

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December, 2010

Best of the Year

Look.  I know that a ‘Best Of ‘ column is kind of phoning it in here, a touch lazy.  So I asked a few Skin Poison/Band of the Week alumni  to contribute their picks for 2010 as well so it’s not just my expected top albums/ list of longhairs for 2010.  I got back a [...]

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November, 2010

Acquired Taste Booking

By MaryAnn Bayer
Living in Upstate NY for three years now has been kind of a sad state of affairs for live music, especially of the independent or local variety.  It seems like whenever I attend  a show around my neck of the woods(Saratoga Springs), I have my choice of bars featuring some lame classic rock [...]

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Slim Cessna’s Auto Club

By MaryAnn Bayer
A bands live show is important.  Is there really anything worse than paying your hard earned money to watch a bunch of unenthused, lethargic, poorly dressed, jabronies labor through their set like there is nothing LESS they’d like to do than entertain their audience?  I appreciate showmanship.  I appreciate that art of entertaining [...]

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