The Coathangers: Nosebleed Weekend
More weekend than nosebleed, the Coathangers deliver a mix of sluggishly performed garage rock and passable punk attitude.
Magdalen Jenne
Magdalen Jenne is a corporate shill and closet prog rocker. She received her BA in music theory from Sarah Lawrence College in 2013. She is the host of No Easy Way Down, an eclectic afternoon pop show on BBOX Radio in Brooklyn, NY. In her limited spare time she pursues an anthropological angle on mid-2000s golden era emo music and tweets nonsense @piratejenne.
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