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The Monk Was In A Metal Mood: Or, How I Stopped Worrying And Learned To Love Judas Priest – Live @PNC Music Pavilion – Sept. 20th, 2025

MONASTIC ROCK ROOTS I never have been too much of a Metal fan in my time. But perhaps a weird outlier in my musical development was the fact that the first “favorite band” I ever had were the hard + … Continue reading

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Record Shopping Road Trip: Charlotte [part 4]

The Wax Museum Our final stop was not far from Repo Record. I picked this store to end our jaunt because they had a reputation of being a place with a lot of 7″ singles. My friend Ron had been … Continue reading

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Record Shopping Road Trip: Charlotte [part 3]

Repo Record The next store we went to was just a mile or two away, but it was, strangely enough, located in the suburbs. Smack dab in the middle of a nice neighborhood was the Repo Record store. Apparently, it … Continue reading

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Record Shopping Road Trip: Charlotte [part 2]

Manifest Discs [continued] While waiting for Ron, I went through the store with a medium tooth comb. I saw the new FFS album, which I had seen at Harvest Records earlier, but decided that since it was so new, I’d give … Continue reading

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Record Shopping Road Trip: Charlotte [part 1]

Last Wednesday, there was no post here because I was out of town, on a record trawl with Ron Kane. Ron wanted to spend a week in Raleigh, and during the time of his visit from California, time was tight. … Continue reading

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