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dark room , look out the window , put my headphones on and my Walkman , and just listen to music and resonate with not only
so funny , because when I first met him , I was just gonna get an autograph , and all that I knew of him were the songs that I heard on the radio , or the first Rainbow album , which I loved and played to death . But after I met him — after he sent a roadie through the crowd to find out who I was and asked me to meet him later at a pub — a friend of mine drove me there , and we got halfway there , and Ritchie ’ s car pulled us over . He wasn ’ t driving — his roadie was — and they asked me to get in the back of the car .
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April 2
Alan Vega Mutator Demi Lovato Dancing With The Devil … Godspeed You ! Black Emperor Ryley Walker Course In Fable The Natvral Tethers
April 9
Årabrot Norwegian Gothic Cheap Trick In Another World Saccades Flowing Fades Small Black Cheap Dreams Taylor Swift Fearless ( Taylor ' s Version )
Teenage Fanclub
the music but the lyrics of bands . My school books were covered in lyrics — not lyrics that I wrote , but lyrics other people wrote where I felt like they completely understood my soul . I was so deeply enamored with music ; it was like my breath , my religion . That ’ s all that I wanted to do , was listen to music . So when I went to college , I thought I would get a job that had something to do with music . I didn ’ t think I was gonna be front and center stage — I thought I might work for a record company . I thought , “ Well , at least I ’ ll be AROUND music — what a dream job that will be !” So I started interning at a radio station out here , and that ’ s how I met Ritchie . And it ’ s

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start . CN : Right ? And to my girlfriend , I ’ m like , “ I don ’ t know these guys ! Keep me in sight ! Don ’ t leave me !” And she said , “ Don ’ t worry ! I ’ ll be following you the whole way !” So here I am , in the cramped back seat of this Mercedes , an 18-year-old girl , completely terrified . And I was definitely NOT cool . I wasn ’ t like , “ Oh , can I hang out with you ?” I was like , “ What am I doing ? What did I get myself involved with ?” But I ’ m talking to Ritchie , and he ’ s sitting in the front seat , and he ’ d just gotten off the muddy soccer field , and he was changing his soccer boots and cleats , and the first thing he did was take off one of his dirty
April 16
Greta Van Fleet The Battle At Garden ' s Gate London Grammar Californian Soil Paul McCartney McCartney III Imagined The Offspring Let The Bad Times Roll
April 23
Dinosaur Jr . Sweep It Into Space Luminous Kid at the end of the dream Tom Jones Surrounded by Time
April 30
Dropkick Murphys Turn Up That Dial Guided by Voices Earth Man Blues Manchester Orchestra The Million Masks Of God Royal Blood Typhoons Teenage Fanclub Endless Arcade
Rob Zombie

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