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Bill Cooper

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Manchester
As seen in: Medium, Spectrum Culture
Covers:  Pop Culture, Album Reviews, Literature, Music including: dream pop, prog rock, metal, jazz, blues, psych-rock, shoegaze, country, and more
Arts & Culture Journalist/Writer/Editor Words: Spectrum Culture, The Tonearm, Third Eye Psych, Substack hopebillhelps@gmail.com

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Bill Cooper is a freelance writer and Youtuber living in Manchester, NH. He listens to a large variety of music and is unafraid to talk about it in any scope that might be: from reviewing it, ranting about it, or resurrecting a past album's importance.
Last year, he listened to over 900 albums and he's hoping to break a thousand this year.
He blogs frequently about music on Medium (https://medium.com/@HopeBillHelps) as well as writing reviews on Spectrum Culture.

Bill Cooper’s Journalist Portfolio

Wisp: Pandora - Spectrum Culture

Wisp: Pandora - Spectrum Culture

This TikTok phenom can craft a great guitar line and an interesting melody, but when she tries to put it all …

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Blair Lee: LIMBO EP - Spectrum Culture

Blair Lee: LIMBO EP - Spectrum Culture

Blair Lee's LIMBO features catchy melodies, fun soundscapes, and underlying nostalgic references that, for th…

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Hot Joy: Small Favor - Spectrum Culture

Hot Joy: Small Favor - Spectrum Culture

Hot Joy's debut is filled with promise and affection. Although not all choices hit the mark, the band creates…

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I Found My Guitar's Heartbeat Once

I Found My Guitar's Heartbeat Once

I saw a shiny red electric guitar close up. Slowly, my vision pans out to see a much older version of myself.…

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The Pressure To Perform

The Pressure To Perform

A couple of weeks ago, I walked into Goodwill and found the My World, a 2003 concert DVD featuring Avril Lavi…

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Velvet Underground's "Heroin" Makes Us Complicit in Drug Use

Velvet Underground's "Heroin" Makes Us Complicit in Drug Use

Velvet Underground's Velvet Underground and Nico was an album universally hated by critics and most consumers…

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Articles

Trudeau & Doonesbury: by Joshua Kendall

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Doonesbury has been an anomaly in the daily newspaper’s comic section for decades.
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Stone Garden: Stone Garden

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In the mid-‘60s, three almost-teenaged Speer brothers from Lewiston, Idaho formed a garage band named the Three Dimensions. Later, they added bassist Dan Merrell and became the Knights of Sound. By 1967, the group adopted the Stone Garden moniker when their manager, Don Tunnell, found a hip psychedelic poster featuring the words.
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Oren Ambarchi: Cooked

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Experimental multi-instrumentalist Oren Ambarchi’s discography is hard to keep up with. You have the Australian musician’s solo projects, his collaborations with Jim O’Rourke, his Ghosted trio, the releases he oversees, produces, and mixes through his own label Black Truffle … Like the Marvel Cinematic Universe, you can quickly become overwhelmed trying to keep up with the avant-garde artist’s output.
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