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  • But the day after the null report on identification Thorby encountered "Decibel" Peebie in the showers.

    Citizen Of The Galaxy Heinlein, Robert A. 1957

  • The heavy blues of "Stormy May Day" finds Angus Young breaking out the slide, while the riff of "Decibel" sounds suspiciously like ZZ Top's "Waitin 'for the Bus," but if you are going to steal, ZZ Top is as good a choice as any to take from.

    All articles at Blogcritics 2008

  • In 2005, the band released a self-titled EP via Level Plane garnering positive critical acclaim from outlets such as Decibel ( "... the band's sound, while employing popular elements like singing and screaming, defies categorization"), Alternative Press ( "Not only are their hearts in the right place, but so is their musical ability ... refreshing in a scene that's become watered down") and Punknews. org (4 out of 5, "Mikoto rips through these 5 songs with the ferocity of a rabid lion loose on an antelope farm").

    AbsolutePunk.net - News 2008

  • Earlier this year, she performed as part of Seattle's Decibel Festival and Poland's experimental Unsound Festival — one of few female artists on either program.

    Shredding the Definition of the Guitar Hero Andy Beta 2010

  • The name of this party, part of the city's eighth annual Decibel festival, was Loft Revival, a nod to disco's birthplace, New York City's Loft, hosted by David Mancuso now in London.

    How the punks of Portland turned to disco 2011

  • So The Decibel Tolls has a good handle on the situation in that case.

    Morning Buzz: Pavement, Vampire Weekend, Christopher Lee | BUZZGRINDER 2010

  • Recently, the Decibel Penguin Literary prize for British writers of Afro Caribbean and Asian origin was forced under threat from the CRE to admit white writers.

    No Blacks Allowed.....(?) Newmania 2007

  • I am fortunate that Decibel the Parrot announces his intentions before he carries them out.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Anne Johnson 2009

  • The troll called my references and the vet I use for Decibel the Parrot, and I was cleared.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Anne Johnson 2009

  • Recently, the Decibel Penguin Literary prize for British writers of Afro Caribbean and Asian origin was forced under threat from the CRE to admit white writers.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Newmania 2007

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