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An independent podcast-and-newsletter project from historian Dr. Bob Beatty featuring oral-history conversations and deep dives on Southern music, the Allman Brothers Band, and events like Woodstock. Readers get episode overviews, firsthand accounts, and musician quotes with historical context.
Each issue takes apart a well-known rock song at the piano, explaining its chords, scales and arrangement choices and why they work emotionally. Readers get song context plus practical ideas they can apply to their own songwriting.
A fan-run newsletter devoted to Drive-By Truckers, mixing festival reports from Muscle Shoals and ShoalsFest with in-depth essays on individual DBT songs. Readers get personal, literate commentary on the band's music and its Southern roots, plus occasional vinyl giveaways.
Dead Noise publishes first-person concert recaps and album reviews focused on rock and metal, with a nod to horror cinema. Readers get a fan's perspective on live shows, tours and new releases, mostly from North Carolina venues.
Concert reviews and photos from rock and metal shows and festivals, mainly in the Midwestern United States. Each issue covers the venue, the opening acts and the headliner, with set highlights and band lineups.
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