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Rob Smith Can’t Say No: The Hipwaders
I’ve been compelled by the rules of this column, as well by my own expanding tastes, to listen to a lot of kindie music in the last year. As I’ve explained previously, there’s a lot of the stuff out...
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Rob Smith Can’t Say No: Gustafer Yellowgold
Last year I was wowed by a record by Oranjuly, a Boston-based power pop “band” that was essentially the work of one man, Brian E. King, spiritual godson of Brian Wilson, Paul McCartney, and Tom Scholz,...
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Rob Smith Can’t Say No: Filligar
My favorite episodes of The Brady Bunch were the ones in which the kids would get up on stage or in a studio and sing. As the Brady Six (so named because their surname was Brady, there were six of...
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Rob Smith Can’t Say No: Jenn Grauer
Interesting sounds can come from the most unexpected of places. Not long ago, I received an email from Jenn Grauer, a producer at HBO, inviting me to check out some music she had just released. To be...
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Rob Smith Can’t Say No: Smoke Fairies
The original “smoke fairies” were silent film actress Gladys Hulette and another, unidentified pixie, who tormented smoker Paul Panzer in the 1909 silent short Princess Nicotine. The film’s action is...
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Rob Smith Can’t Say No: D&M
What did you do in your spare time at college (or from the ages of 18 to 22, if you didn’t matriculate)? Discuss literature with pretty coeds? Perfect your Frisbee flick? Engage in leg-bending hacky...
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Rob Smith Can’t Say No: The Beehavers
Some of us here at Tha Dose not only write about music, but practice the art ourselves, in sundry forms, with varying results. Regardless of where Ken Shane lives (Rhode Island, these days), the breath...
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Rob Smith Can’t Say No: Kenny G & Rahul Sharma, “Namaste”
It has occurred to me from time to time, for purposes both spiritual and financial, to start my own religion. My late uncle did this once, on a lark; his was called the Church of Flat. Its doctrine was...
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Rob Smith Can’t Say No: Leroy Justice
Even though I pretty much shut this column down a while back, my friend/editor/collaborator/occasional thorn-in-side Jeff Giles (y’all) will occasionally try to lure me back to it, quite often with the...
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Rob Smith Can’t Say No: Milkshake, ”Got a Minute?”
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE HONORABLE STEPHANIE RAWLINGS-BLAKE, MAYOR OF BALTIMORE, MD. Dear Mayor Rawlings-Blake: I don’t need to tell you about the wealth of local treasures your city has to offer. True,...
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