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Rubberneck

My first post of 2014 is also my first post of 2014 with the Observer. Yesterday, a press release went out detailing the forthcoming reissue of the Toadies' major label debut, Rubberneck. I sent the release to my editor and he asked me to write something about it for the blog. I called up my friend and fellow writer Darryl Smyers and we chatted for about 15 minutes last night. Quickly typing the transcription and uploading it to our blog system, it arrived today.

So a condensed version of our conversation can be found here.

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