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Hello and welcome to The Evan Whitton Hour Blog: After Hours. Here I'll be posting yet more content related to my YouTube channel of the same name (https://www.youtube.com/c/TheEvanWhittonHour). I'll be posting single reviews from upcoming albums, as well as commenting on the occasional piece of music news that crosses my radar and having a chat about it. Additionally I'll be launching a segment called 'Evan's Extraneous Interests', a segment where I discuss some of my other interests in the media-sphere, primarily comedy but also other things too. All of the articles published right now are in a list below, with a link to the blog's home page so you can check them all out. Happy reading!

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