Avenged Sevenfold – Life Is but a Dream…, Album Review

Even though I’ve seen this well-regarded metal band live twice in my life, I think this is the first album of theirs that I’ve actually listened to in full. In fact, the last full length album they released was seven years ago – I didn’t even have a blog then! But Avenged Sevenfold is back with Life Is but a Dream… and I gave it my full attention with zero expectations.

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Foo Fighters – But Here We Are, Album Review

Even though I just saw the Foo Fighters a few weeks ago, I couldn’t bring myself to immediately listen to their latest record, But Here We Are, coming just slightly over a year after the passing of the band’s longtime drummer, Taylor Hawkins. Then I learned that Dave Grohl’s mother passed a month after Taylor and I knew I was going to be in for a gut-punch of a record.

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Fan Art Friday: Louis Tomlinson

Or as I’d also like to refer to him as: my favorite member of One Direction. Regretfully, I didn’t make it out to his show closet to my home the other day due to work commitments, and unfortunately none of the other dates on his tour work out. My friend and I should have seen him in the spring of the pandemic, but well you know, it was the pandemic. Maybe next time. But for now, enjoy this older drawing of Louis Tomlinson.

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