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A car speeds by the the West Jackson Street development signage for new lots for sale on Thursday, April 29, 2021. Since 2013, the city of Tupelo has spent at least $3.2 million in public dollars to redevelop the Jackson Street corridor. But the project, originally intended to stifle growing blight and alleviate the city s dearth of affordable housing, has hit its fair share of snags along the way, and the houses aren t nearly as affordable as originally intended.
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Calm Elliot-Armstrong. Since signing to Fire Talk / Royal Mountain a few weeks back, Toronto slacker rock four-piece PACKS have been compared to a bunch of rock bands from the 90s (Sonic Youth, Pavement), a few of bands from the past decade who borrowed from rock bands from the 90s (Vivian Girls, Best Coast), and a handful of contemporary artists who borrow from rock bands from the 90s (Disq). These comparisons aren t entirely misleading. Silvertongue, the single with which they announced their debut album
Take The Cake, had all the components of a reluctantly anthemic slacker-rock song: uncomplicated power chords, one- or two-note solos, vocal melodies ripped from early Seattle grunge. The band s lead singer and songwriter Madeline Link â who started PACKS as a solo project before inviting in drummer Shane Hooper, bassist Noah OâNeil, and guitarist Dexter Nash â sings with her jaw half-clenched half the time, as calculated