Rob Rase, Left On High and the Loud Art of Evolution and Survival

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Call it ferocity in domesticity rather than fully tamed. Rob Rase is sitting in the home recording studio in the Westside home he shares with wife, Brenda Kato. Sleeved and legged in tattoos, sporting a Rat Town Records t-shirt, Rase grins as he shows off the gear he’s assembled in a relatively short time. The studio doubles as a practice …

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Bob Mould Crams a 40-Year Career of Alternative Noise into a Solo Electric Show

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Alt-rock pioneer Bob Mould, who founded both Hüsker Dü and Sugar (among other projects), performs a solo-electric show at the Ponte Vedra Concert Hall on Friday, October 14. He recently spoke with First Coast Connect host Melissa Ross about the gig, his 40-year career and his latest work. Listen to the interview below. Bob Mould performs at the Ponte Vedra …

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Here’s What You Need To Know About Saturday’s Record Store Day

An RSD bonus round comes to the 904

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Record Store Day — the traditionally once-a-year infusion of vinyl rarities and reissues into independently owned record stores around the country — is back for a 2022-bonus round. While April 23 was the official RSD of 2022, a fair amount of the most-anticipated drops didn’t make it to independent music sellers, owing largely to an unprecedented logjam at vinyl manufacturers …

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The Tables Have Turned on Vinyl

Jacksonville musicians, labels and manufacturers embrace vinyl’s renewed popularity; if only they could get their records on press

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The music of LPT is tailor made for vinyl. The Jacksonville-based ten piece performs original son cubano, salsa dura and salsa romántica, mambo, cha-cha-cha and other styles of Afro-Cuban Salsa, a fusion of sounds which, when introduced by Cuban and Puerto Rican musicians in New York in the 1970s, was distributed widely on vinyl records––the preferred format of the day.   …

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