And by the look of the youtube search results, it’s happened quite a lot: Clearly, I’m not a huge Taylor Swift fan (or heck, an Eminem fan either), but I must admit, I kind of like this. Nothing like breaking your audience of it’s comfort zone. Still want to see her bust out those Gelfling […]

Since I started working the schedule I do, the appearance of the random ten is honestly just as random as the order of the songs that might appear. Oh well, I got one in this week. Enjoy, while I take a pre-road trip road trip: “”She Said, She Said – The Beatles “”Mockin’bird Hill – […]

It seems like the concept of nostalgia is something that is bubbling up quite a bit these days, here and elsewhere. For the last several weeks, I’ve been going back through my music collection and re-visiting the thoughts and feelings those fifteen and twenty year old records dredge up. I’ve written at least three pieces […]

There are several Greatest Hits packages in this edition; quickie releases designed to quickly get new fans up to speed or replace aging cassette tapes, or just to make money to pay off a divorce settlement or wring the last bit of blood from the stone after the band calls it quits. They have their […]

Being the devoted music fan that she is, Amanda Marcotte put this piece up about the 20th anniversary of the release of Nevermind coming up next month. That record, nor any of Nirvana’s output ever really resonated with me the way it did with a lot of my peers, especially those a few years younger […]

This week, we talk about a handful of other records pulled out of my big box. I guess if there’s something approaching a theme to be drawn from this batch, it’s the presence of hidden lore behind a record that makes it what it is. I almost threw in a review of the newish Wailin’ […]

This weekend brings a new box of CDs to the car, and thus, a new edition of this particular series, in which I examine my somewhat questionable musical taste, as expressed via the great variety of compact discs I’ve accumulated over the course of my life. If anything, this little project of mine shows that […]

Yes. It’s hot, people. Drink some water. stay inside. don’t waste electricity. I get it. We all get it. I really don’t mind a general reminder in the name of public service, really, but I’d rather with the media wouldn’t rant and rave and make the young and/or gullible amongst us think the world is […]

Totally by accident, I found out via twitter that something interesting an dare I say magical? (yeah, probably shouldn’t have done that) was going down in DC this afternoon. I had sort of settled on a plan for a quiet evening chilling in the hotel room – it’s really hot outside, and I’m not feeling […]

So, I’m at it again, with more record reviews. I think it’s kind of fun that I’ve seen all of these artists live at least once, and I’m reasonably sure that I’ve seen three of them on the same stage, but never on the same night. Come to think of it, that would be a […]