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Howard Hardee

Howard Hardee is a freelance writer based in Chico, California. Originally from Fairbanks, Alaska, he has a BA in journalism and writes stories about music, outdoor adventures, politics, and the environment for alt-weeklies across the country. He is an aficionado of fine noises, and has a theremin in his living room.

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Third Eye Blind Embraces Modern Sounds Without Pandering to Mainstream Charts

By Howard Hardee
Nov 15, 2019

The United States of the late 1990s was "so innocent" in the eyes of Third Eye Blind drummer Brad Hargreaves. China hadn't joined the World Trade Organization and begun its rise to economic superpower; Russia was still sorting through the rubble of the Soviet Union; the 9/11 terror attacks hadn't yet upended U.S. culture, and America seemed to stand unchallenged on the world stage.
The Potent Nostalgia of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' Greatest Hits

By Howard Hardee
Oct 10, 2019

Classics such as "Free Fallin'" and "Into the Great Wide Open" and "I Won't Back Down" are potently nostalgic, like childhood distilled into music.
Adam Lambert Is Not Freddie Mercury, but He's Not Trying to Be

By Howard Hardee
Aug 6, 2019

It's best to appreciate Queen + Adam Lambert for what it is — an amazingly talented singer doing his own thing with an amazing catalog of music.
The Get Up Kids Are All Grown Up, but Still Singing About Relationship Drama

By Howard Hardee
Jul 5, 2019

Now that the band itself is well past its 1990s heyday and its members are entering middle age, Pryor is still using other people's relationships as musical inspiration.
Wifisfuneral Doesn't Give an Inch to the Haters on New EP, Ethernet 2

By Howard Hardee
Jul 5, 2019

Wifi winks at the traditionalists who dismiss him based on stylistic divergence, despite his newfound prominence in South Florida's outside-the-box hip-hop scene.

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