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Moviola
Earthbound
Sep 25, 2025 | by | No Comments | Read →

Where does Moviola land in 2025? I’d like to think it’s upon a weird road map that connects Columbus, Ohio, (where the band gestated) to somewhere on some...


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Album Reviews

Moviola
Earthbound
Moviola Earthbound

Where does Moviola land in 2025? I’d like to think it’s upon a weird road map that connects Columbus, Ohio, (where the band gestated) to somewhere on some...

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What’s the Rumpus?

The Beta Band
Royale, Boston, October 29
The Beta Band Royale, Boston, October 29

On their first tour since splitting up in 2004, The Beta Band touched down in Boston late last month. It was hard to know what to expect from the...

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Past Perfect

Smashing Pumpkins
Machina/The Machines of God
Smashing Pumpkins Machina/The Machines of God

Whatever one’s take on the Smashing Pumpkins’ critically mixed and commercially ignored 1998 album, Adore, it signaled a stylistic fugue for Billy...

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Biblio Files

Rumors of My Demise: A Memoir
by Evan Dando
Rumors of My Demise: A Memoir by Evan Dando

Coincidentally, in tandem with Lemonheads frontman Evan Dando’s new memoir, Rumors of My Demise, I’m also reading David Lee Roth’s 1997 tell-all...

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Best of the Year

The Agit Reader Top 10 of 2024
The Agit Reader Top 10 of 2024

Here’s our annual look back at the best album from the past year, albeit in a less in-depth form than past years. In general, 2024 was a particularly strong year for music...

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