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The Royal Scam

On this year’s 4/20, let’s all take a moment to celebrate the true message of legalizing marijuana in the American way: Commodifying the struggle for freedom against oppression so that a small handful of rich assholes can get even wealthier without the unpleasantness of restorative justice for the millions of lives destroyed by the long […]

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Music Tonight: Saturday, May 6

Houston rapper Devin the Dude has built his 25-year career around the oddball, back-alley by the mainstream style of hip hop that has made that city an artistic haven and spiritual twin of its cultural sister city of New Orleans. I’m talking about cool, idiosyncratic shit that is too real to be esoteric and far […]

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Microphone Season?

I’ll make this quick, for once. I have included both open mics and karaoke gigs here in the Setlist this week, with the obvious elephant of two-plus years of plague looming in the room. I can’t make any decisions for you, thankfully, but I am curious what people think about sharing a common microphone with […]

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