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Will 2011 Be The Year First Communion Afterparty Break Through?
You have to be somewhat of a forensic investigator to find signs of life emanating from First Communion Afterparty, possibly the greatest band in the Universe. Yes, the “Field of Flowers” video was...
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What If First Communion Afterparty Are Trapped In The Mall of America?
Would they find psychedelic sustenance with this? Leica M9, Noctilux, not sure what kind of cactus this is…
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Capsula’s “In The Land Of The Silver Souls” Breaches U.S. Shores
Capsula is a throwback to an era of punk rock that may not ever have existed, a remnant of a Platonic world where all songs are played fast, where the drummer keeps an animalistic beat for hours on...
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First Communion Afterparty RIP?
Our periodic Googling of First Communion Afterparty — always hoping upon hope that we find news that the best American band of the past five years has overcome whatever obstacles were preventing them...
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Prince Rupert’s Drops Move The Punkadelica Center O’ Gravity East
Since the demise of the late and much lamented First Communion Afterparty, Tulip Frenzy has kept up a lonely vigil trying to locate the next great American punk band whose ambition drives them not to...
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How To Survive The Wait Until First Communion Afterparty Release “Earth Heat...
When we last reported on First Communion Afterparty, it was prior to their reuniting to play at the July 5th Bathysphere: A Psychonautical Voyage in hometown Minneapolis. We knew about it because of...
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Tulip Frenzy Gets Results: New Magic Trick Album Announced For December 3rd...
A month ago this very day, the scribblers at Tulip Frenzy World HQ saw fit to ask: Will The Fresh And Only’s Soothsayer be Tim Cohen’s only rec release this annum? You see, we had of late been playing...
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We Have “Earth Heat Sound” By First Communion Afterparty, And It Was Worth...
About five years after my father died, a letter arrived from an old WWII friend of his, saying, “It’s been way too long, buddy, why don’t you write? Is something wrong?” We thought of this as we’ve...
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Tulip Frenzy 2013 Top Ten List ™ Shortlist Announced
So we promised Magic Trick that we would wait for River Of Souls, out Tuesday, before locking the ballot box on the Tulip Frenzy 2013 Top Ten List ™. We will save them a spot on the shortlist, okay?...
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The #1 Album On The 2013 Tulip Frenzy Top Ten List ™ Is First Communion...
You may not be surprised by this choice, given how we raved about it, but we were. The odds were against our saying Earth Heat Sound was the best album of 2013, because until mid-summer, we’d given up...
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First Communion Afterparty’s #1 Album On The Tulip Frenzy 2013 Top Ten List ™...
Yes, the torrent of email continues, with readers wanting to know how they can download Earth Heat Sound by First Communion Afterparty. Go here! Not yet up on the iTunes Store, but I believe that if...
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The New Flavor Crystals Album Sends A Shiver Up The Spine
You really have to listen to the Flavor Crystals’ new album, though not if you have anyplace you need to go. The Shiver Of The Flavor Crystals is the fourth LP from the Twin Cities psych band, and...
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Driftwood Pyre Rekindle The Embers of First Communion Afterparty
Lucky you, people of Earth, for this morning you can download the first album by the Driftwood Pyre, the kickass remnant of the most astonishing psych band our species produced circa 2009-2012, First...
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Tulip Frenzy Exclusive Interview With Driftwood Pyre, Whose Debut Was Our...
On Sunday, we revealed that Driftwood Pyre had beaten a tough field to claim the #1 spot on Tulip Frenzy’s 2015 Top 10 List. This likely made sense to anyone who has heard this brilliant band, and...
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Greatness On The Installment Plan: Driftwood Pyre’s “Strangeways” EP
Driftwood Pyre claimed Tulip Frenzy’s 2015 Album of the Year honors, and a few days later, we were pleased to publish an interview with the Minneapolis psych band who carried the half-filled chalice...
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White Fence’s “For The Recently Found Innocent” Is Tulip Frenzy’s Album of...
White Fence For The Recently Found Innocent That lowly scrum of slackers who moon about Tulip Frenzy’s Global HQ like the gangsters of the Bergin Hunt and Fish Club were hoping to avoid the debate...
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