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Eats light bulbs. Further fun and reading from Ed Factor with his Post Dogger Expressions and Shenanigans.

Ima Robot vs Edward Sharpe, reflections of the Edfactor.

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Ed Factor

Cover of Ima Robot

Before Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros catapulted this whole pseudo-hippy, rag-tag crew of musicians into every “so-called” independent network outlet across the land.. In the earlier part of the millennium, the lead singer Alex (who has lately fallen into the whole indie-rock guru role with this caravan) once fronted the kick ass LA-based band Ima Robot.

Now, there’s nothing wrong with the whole Edward Sharpe thing… And I am not going to lie, when that song “Home” was [...]

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Salsa Chips, Tomorrow’s Tulips, The Cosmonauts, and The Tyde @ Alex’s Bar for Burger Records Night

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Ed Factor

The Show

Thursday, January 6th, Long Beach, CA, Alex’s Bar: A popular venue amongst the hip cats and, I believe, also a set used for some certain Vampire show/movie (I’m not really into that shit). Darren, mastermind and lead singer behind The Tyde, informed me a few days prior, via social networking, the happening.  After the go-ahead from Mr. Hippie Jeff (of DHR), the green light was given to me to jump back into journalistic duty.

So, I did the most responsible thing in [...]

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