Best of the Rest, Vol 14: Concerning Red Hot Chili Peppers and Eddie Vedder
Gen-X-ers…shit’s getting weird. Suddenly, without warning, milk is good for you again. Wide-bottom jeans abound. The occasional bucket...
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Shawn Brown
- Jan 12
- 3 min
Best of the Rest, Vol 13: 2021 Year End Review
As the great Mudhoney once nobly said, we’re “Flat Out Fucked.” 2021…yeah it’s not been great. Watching humanity’s drunk toddler-like,...
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Shawn Brown
- Oct 24, 2021
- 2 min
Best of the Rest, Vol 12: Toad the Wet Sprocket
Occasionally, when the “Deloreon in my mind” zooms me back to better days, I land somewhere in ’93-’94. There I am in Boise, Idaho. I’m...
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Shawn Brown
- Sep 25, 2021
- 2 min
Best of the Rest, Vol 11: Del Amitri
Justin Currie from Del Amitri is, and always has been, my guy. It was 1990, Bush Sr. was president, Sam Malone’s hair still seemed real,...
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Shawn Brown
- Aug 30, 2021
- 3 min
Best of the Rest, Vol 10: The Lemonheads
Rise and grind people! We’ve got Evan Dando business at hand. Evan frickin’ Dando. Dando, Dando, Dando. The enigmatic poster boy of Gen-X...
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Shawn Brown
- Jul 20, 2021
- 3 min
Best of the Rest, Vol 9: Pearl Jam
I know what you may be thinking right this very second. Pearl Jam? Freaking Pearl Jam?? Eddie Vedder? Come the fuck on, dude! To which I...
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Shawn Brown
- Jun 30, 2021
- 2 min
Best of the Rest, Vol 8: Biffy Clyro
Exploring one’s new neighborhood during a pandemic is tricky business. Thankfully, shit is swiftly reopening in Portland, Oregon. One can...
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Shawn Brown
- May 5, 2021
- 3 min
Best of the Rest, Vol 7: Stereophonics
*as originally published in Stereo Embers Magazine 5/5/21 I’ll level with you. We’re good like that, yeah? I’m tossing myself a softball...
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Shawn Brown
- Feb 7, 2021
- 2 min
Best of the Rest, Volume 6: Oasis
Best of the Rest is back with a spring in our step. It’s FINALLY 2021, the vaccines are on the truck and the adults are back in charge....
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Shawn Brown
- Jan 1, 2021
- 3 min
Best of the Rest: Favorite Jams of 2020
Good Lordy, did 2020 just blow or what?! Garbage. Truly awful by any conceivable standard. So terrible in fact, that I gave serious...
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Shawn Brown
- Dec 29, 2020
- 3 min
Best of the Rest: John Mayer
Oh, quit it. Just stop. I know you want to throw your Slurpee at your screen right now, but just give it a sec. First off, that Slurpee...
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Shawn Brown
- Nov 8, 2020
- 3 min
Best of the Rest, Volume 3: Foo Fighters
The genesis of this new Best of the Rest column can most definitely be blamed on my stupid bike. Yes, my bike. Undoubtedly the vast...
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Shawn Brown
- Oct 27, 2020
- 3 min
Best of the Rest, Volume 2: R.E.M.
Look, I’m an album guy. Love them. Love everything about them. The liner notes, the pictures, the credits, the lyric sheets, the...
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Shawn Brown
- Oct 19, 2020
- 2 min
Best of the Rest, Volume One: U2
Sometime ago, in an early COVID era, far, far away, I wrote a feature in this fine magazine called Tough Love: Picking The Best Songs Of...
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