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I was digging through a box of cassette tapes here at the tunequest compound and happened upon a handful of bootlegs from my tape trading days back in the 90s. Shows by "alternative" artists like Beck and Weezer early in their careers. Somewhat surprisingly, most of the shows have informative tape jackets, complete with show dates, venues and setlists. But there is one which has no jacket at all. And ...

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From the album Sarah Shannon (2002) It's been more than a decade since the rock band Velocity Girl broke up, putting an end to one of my favorite high school-era ensembles and effectively ending my exposure to the group's vocalist, Sarah Shannon. Her post-VG work, a band called Starry Eyes, was short-lived and VG's online fan base wasn't large or cohesive enough to adequately maintain updates of band members' whereabouts. ...

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Well, not that new. It's from 2002/2003. but it is new to me and that is exciting. I was comfortable with the notion that the band was gone and its member had moved on to other projects and lives. Sarah has her solo project; Archie's doing the producer thing; etc. but when researching for my previous velocity girl post, I discovered the wonderful news and it rocks my world. There is ...

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Free Listen: Anatomy of a Gutless Wonder [audio:http://www.tunequest.org/download/VelocityGirl-AnatomyofaGutlessWonder.mp3] Anatomy of a Gutless Wonder was one of the last songs released by Velocity Girl before the group's break up in late 1996. It's only available as the b-side to the 7" single Nothing from the group's final album gilded stars and zealous hearts. I picked it up (along with the Your Smiling Face single) directly from subpop.com in my early college days ...

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