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• Hi!
  First I just wanna say that your blog has opened my eyes to a whole new world of music and now I check religiously to gobble up the great jams/bands you guys post… I’m also hooked on the mixtape. I have a question tho… How often to you post podcasts? I’m looking forward to the next one!

  Thanks,
  Bobby

  Bobby August 29, 2008 @ 7:03 pm

• Hello Bobby,

  I am glad you like the site and we are extremely happy that people check back with us. We wanted to create something that will expose people to new and interesting music without giving entire albums away for free. By doing this we are fair to the artist and also not getting ourselves in trouble. We will have another podcast coming down the line very soon but I have no clue as to what will be on it.

  Jason August 30, 2008 @ 11:25 am

• This is an excellent collection of music and information. Keep up the good work.

  Also, do you know of any other sites like this?

  Woozy Viper October 28, 2008 @ 2:30 pm

• Hey,

  Love this site, you guys do a great job sharing music. Really good reviews, too.
  I was wondering do yall only review reissues? ’cause Dennis Linde is a guy who did strange, hard-to-find “Americana” pop/rock and I figure a lot of your readers would dig him, but I don’t think any of his albums have been released on CD.
  anyways, keep an eye out for his records, the two I’ve heard (Linde Manor and self-titled) are excellent.

  Love,
  lonepine

  lonepine April 14, 2009 @ 11:57 pm

• Cannot recommend this blogsite strongly enough to real music appreciators. I was lucky enough to pass my late teens and early twenties during the Golden Age of rock, 1965-1975, and thought I knew a fair bit about the music from that era. TRS has opened my eyes (and ears) to how much I have yet to learn. Hope to offer more reviews of my own, mostly psych, white boy blues, progressive, and country rock, and the fuzzy overlaps between them.
  “There’s only two types of music: good and bad.” Duke Ellington (or possibly Miles Davis).

  Len Liechti July 14, 2009 @ 5:44 pm

• Eldorado and The Wizard of Oz is a fine sync, I must say. Betcha can’t guess when Laredo Tornado kicks in?

  FunkyDung September 3, 2009 @ 7:33 pm

• The Rising Storm is definitely an eye opener. I found you guys through the Drunkard and love both sites, but especially appreciate your knowledge of lost gems. The article on “The Golden Era of the Kinks,” is where it all began for me. Thank you so much for helping me dig! Len, you are paraphrasing Duke, though Miles probably said it, too. Another Duke quote I love is one on composition: “I never met a Major Chord I didn’t like.”

  Tom October 17, 2009 @ 1:00 am

• Found many of my favourites and many brand new discoveries on your insightful lists. Perhaps it is my age but the 80’s onward doesn’t have the freshness of your selections. You folks have exquisite taste.

  Please keep up the super work.

  Art November 9, 2009 @ 9:21 pm

• Hey, Art, I can see where you’re coming from: IMHO the last truly original musical genre was the New Romantic / electronic period in the UK which gave us, inter alia, Orchestral Manoevres, John Foxx, Tears For Fears, the Bunnymen and Joy Division / New Order. (You might also suggest rap, but again IMO the limited palette of a simple rhythm, percussive scratching and an attitude in lyrics doesn’t comprise a full and satisfying musical spectrum – it’s up to you to decide whether Run DMC, for all its obvious quality, is “music” or a different form of performance art closer to poetry.) The Postmodern period has seen most new musicians revert to recreating, to various extents, earlier prototypes; some of this of course is very good, especially in the fields of Americana, New Blues, Acid Folk, Acid Jazz and other crossovers exploring and extending various forms of what we now call “roots” music. However, there have been since the 80s, and still are, a lot of acts producing truly original product that owes little or no debt to pre-1980 trends. I’ve just this month been hooked by the Cocteau Twins: stunningly original, like nothing I’ve ever heard before. Other similar discoveries in recent years: Lambchop, Radiohead, the Flaming Lips, Elbow, Sufjan Stevens, Muse, Elliott Smith, Beth Orton, to name just the first few that come into my head. In these wretched X-Factor times where conformity rules and finding the next Mariah Carey or Justin Timberlake clone is the only goal of the major record companies, music of real originality by new, genuinely talented artists still finds a way through, thanks to a few enlightened independents and the opportunities offered by the Internet. Yes, 1965-75 was my formative period, and I doubt it will ever be exceeded for the sheer quantity and quality of true, new art in rock that it gave us; The Rising Storm, bless it, is my window on that wonderful era. However, don’t give up completely on post-1980 music: wonderful new musicians are still coming through, you just have to look a bit harder to find them.

  Len Liechti November 10, 2009 @ 5:19 am

• Having just perused the list of recent posts (c. 1645 UK time, 3 June 2010), I have to say I’m simply staggered by the range and variety of these. The Storm goes from strength to strength. If anyone knows of a more entertaining, more reader-friendly, more all-encompassing “heritage” music website, let me know! Meanwhile, credit to Brendan, Jason and all contributors and bloggers for making TRS the unmissable music experience.

  Len Liechti June 3, 2010 @ 11:49 am

• Just found this site and I love it.

  I’m amazed at the all the great albums you guys review that are up there in my all time favorites. People like Gene Clark, Fred Neil, Little Feat, Mickey Newbury, The Beau Brummels, Clarence White, etc. who somehow to this day don’t receive the recognition they deserve.

  I know that the albums I haven’t heard I’ll probably love so can’t wait to start checkin’ some of it out.

  Have y’all listened to any David Ackles? Quite simply one of the all time most underrated singer-songwriters.

  Cosmic_American August 29, 2010 @ 8:02 pm

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