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The Obelisk Show on Gimme Metal Playlist: Episode 48
2020, if you can believe it, has started to wind down. The year-end poll is up, and it’s time for the Apparently-Annual The Obelisk Show on Gimme Metal’s Some of the Best of 2020 Two-Part Extravaganza...
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The Obelisk Presents: THE BEST OF 2020
[PLEASE NOTE: These are not the results of the year-end poll, which is ongoing. If you haven’t contributed your list to the cause yet, please do so here.] — Invariably, the ultimate measure of 2020...
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Video Premiere: Kind, “Faster Number Two” From ONCE Sound Stage Session
ONCE Ballroom, like far too many venues in this wretched country that does far too little to support its own arts and culture — #saveourstages — has had to close its doors in the wake of the COVID-19...
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The Obelisk Show on Gimme Metal Playlist: Episode 72
I’ve been trying to do a best-of-2020-a-year-later episode since like June, but maybe it’s all the more appropriate since we’re coming up on that most wretched of years is actually nearly a full year...
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RippleFest Texas 2022 Lineup Finalized
Back for its second year and with a fourth day in tow, Ripplefest Texas 2022 confirms its full lineup, a total beast of legends and newcomers. Really, I don’t even know what to say here except that if...
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Ripplefest Texas 2023: Complete Lineup Announced
I don’t feel the need to even really say anything here. The lineup speaks for itself. And those who go to this year’s RippleFest Texas will also speak of it, for years, probably in a similar way people...
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Kind Premiere “Burn Scar”; Announce Close Encounters Due Aug. 11
Boston’s Kind will release their third album, Close Encounters, this August through Ripple Music. The band — comprised of guitarist Darryl Shepard (ex-Milligram, The Long Wait, Blackwolfgoat, Hackman,...
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The Obelisk Questionnaire: Tom Corino of Kind
The Obelisk Questionnaire is a series of open questions intended to give the answerer an opportunity to explore these ideas and stories from their life as deeply as they choose. Answers can be short...
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Album Review: Kind, Close Encounters
It’s not that expectations weren’t high for Close Encounters. By virtue of their lineup’s pedigree, Kind‘s output has been anticipated since before their first release, and their two albums to-date,...
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The Obelisk Presents: THE BEST OF 2023 — Year in Review
[PLEASE NOTE: These are not the results of the year-end poll, which ends in January. If you haven’t contributed your picks yet, please do so here.] — It is encouraging in the extreme to see heavy...
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