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Shuffle: Now that’s what I call 1984
Every so often a Minutemen track will turn up on my iPod and it will rekindle my love for the San Pedro trio and I’ll just have to have another listen to ‘Double Nickels on the […]
Articles by David Cowling
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Shuffle: Connections
Music has a wonderful ability to connect us, whether this is a communal experience at a gig or a song that can dredge up feelings so sharply that you can feel the pain or the elation […]
Columns
Shuffle: Conservatism
As we get older, we tend to get set in our ways, we become more conservative, often with a big C. I read somewhere that we set our patterns for our future at quite a young […]
Columns
Shuffle: Toomey, to you: an appreciation of Jenny Toomey
Jenny Toomey was prominent on the Washington DC Hardcore scene in the early 1990s, she played in several bands including Choke, Geek and most notably in Tsunami. It’s not this part of her career that I’m […]
Columns
Shuffle: Obscurity Knocks!
My last column covered the creation of a playlist culled from the mass of tracks on my iPod. I painstakingly worked through the 33,000+ tracks, and in doing so there were many explosions in my synapses, […]