Steve Stebbing

Breaking down all things pop culture

The OCTOLIST is upon us and it all kicks off with a band that just announced a twenty-fifth anniversary tour complete with original masks and jumpsuits! The metal doesn’t end there, as I’ve peppered in some Sevendust, Canadian legends Alexisonfire and the all-woman powerhouse Conquer Divide, angry love and lust songs from Gambino and Meg …

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I really thought I had a good, slightly mellow but completely accessible playlist going on for for number seven. I even opted for the most mainstream sounding song by an old nu-metal favorite of mine and had some classic “sounding” rock, as the oldest record appearing on this list was from 1995, a song I …

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Six playlists in now and, yeah, I can definitely see how they are jarring from time to time tone wise but that is the multi headed hydra of creating a listing of songs out of the music that catches your ear day by day. I will say as a result for this week, it leads …

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Number five is in this week and I took it easy a little on the metal and only blasted your ears with some Machine Head and one of my favorite Canadian bands of all time. My all-time top singer makes her first appearance on the list, some really focused rock n’ roll tracks and even …

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Get ready for a weird but largely heavy ride of fourteen songs as metal definitely won out above all but I still manage to squeeze in the greatest of all time with The Beatles, a childhood melodic treat in the Wilson sisters and a deep crush that I had from the nineties. Yes, this might …

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For most of tis third playlist, I as really cooking something up that was pretty accessable for a broader audience. Capital Cities is safe, Van Halen is a classic ripper, Letters has a great comedown after that, its all going well until I unleashed a major contributor to the end of the Limp B-I-Z-K-I-T. That …

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Another two weeks bring another ecclectic grouping of songs, although I don’t go too heavy metal this time, just a few peppered in there. A bit of my hip hop side is on display in the first part with some classic pre Fergie Peas and a polarizing figure, Cardi B as well as my top …

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I’ve been writing about movies for a long time on my website but a driving force in my everyday life is definitely music. Since a young age, my mom had been playing tapes in her car and at home for me and it’s something that caught on and with it, an eclectic as ear as …

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