Loose Fur may have a moniker similar to the Dark Prince himself, but you”ll find no Lucifer here. These guys probably lie somewhere more around purgatory.
The band feels like a sort of “Wilco Lite,” with two of the guys, Jeff Tweedy and Glenn Kotche being members of Wilco, while the other dude, Jim O’Rourke has produced many of their albums. O’Rourke also worked on albums for Sonic Youth, Stereolab, Faust and Joanna Newsom. He also callaborated with Thurston Moore and now lives in Japan, so good for him.
Sounds Like: Stuffing a wicker rocking chair into a white ’90s Oldsmobile station wagon.
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Patrick once saved a drowning dog from an icey pond, so he is probably better than you. 
Gaming and beverages have a wide and varied history, from 7up mascot Spot’s 16-bit adventures, PlayStation’s Pepsi Man and the Donkey Kong Jungle Juice energy drink. I believe in the business world they call this synergy. In the 90′s SEGA and Coca-Cola took such cross-promotional teamwork to the next level, releasing a complete beverage-branded console bundle. In it, you got [...]
Man, Nintendo certainly had a lot of awesome merchandising back in the day. In game-branded food alone there was Nintendo-themed cereal, mac-and-cheese and fruit snacks. Way better than those shitty mint tins they now sell at FYE and Newbury Comics. But here’s a Nintendo product you definitely should not eat: The Legend of Zelda Model Set. Currently [...]
(NOTE: This was a contribution to a feature that ran @NintendoLife about the 25th Anniversary of the NES. You should go read it.) The first video game I ever saw was Kung-Fu for the NES. My older sister’s friend down the street had just gotten the system, so she kindly escorted me down to their [...]
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