Radio was enormously important to me growing up. I remember (and I will no doubt date myself here) tuning in to Casey Kasem’s weekly countdown because it was important to know what songs to listen to, and what was cool and there was no internet thirty years ago to tell me these things or help [...]
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Music blog One Week//One Band is featuring the Hoodoo Gurus this week. Take a gander, and then get thee Mars Needs Guitars and Stone Age Romeos, two albums full of great power pop. Previous series there feature two of my other favorites, The Replacements and Husker Du. I’ve never been to fight shy of borrowing from a home skillet, so here are some songs currently residing on my iPod’s ‘EarWorms’ playlist. Snowflake – Kate Bush A ten minute song written from a snowflake’s point-of-view and performed by Kate Bush’s son? Yeah, I’m surprised as you are to find it here, but I [...] Since I’ve been badgering her about it for, oh, about eight years or so, it’s only fair to note that this past weekend, from out of left field, Heather gifted me for my birthday six CDs comprising all the songs from the long awaited 80s list compilation. The page with the track list no longer [...] I had little momentum there didn’t I, back in May? And then I went and vanished. I contemplated abandoning this whole blogging thing. Apparently it is just not the thing anymore, and I since I had few readers to begin with, I think I can safely assume I have even fewer now. But! But, I [...] The magic of the internet returned to me two much-loved and long out-of-print albums, and now I share with you. Feel the love. Cowboy Songs – National Geographic I received this as a two record set for Christmas 1976, and played the hell out if it the next five years -my first exposure to American [...] The weather has snowed us in here at Silver Fox Mansions, but I am spending a (half) day working from home. The internet gives, and the internet takes away. Still, at least it is not old school winter. For those of you with more leisure time today, I offer up a consideration of the album [...] The wind is picking up, but we are still waiting for the threatened snow here in Q-town. Hope everyone is warm, well-fed and watered, and enjoying the holiday season. Eighteen-year old kid records a cover of Boston’s Foreplay/Longtime. Seriously, check it out – it’s really good. BONUS: a Muppet wiki. Because who doesn’t want to know more about Pepe the King Prawn? There’s a storm coming Friday and all sorts of nasty colds are circulating through Boston-area offices. Luckily the Intended and I prepared for this earlier in the week, by buying a bag of lemons, a fifth of Jameson and all the other fixings necessary to make a Hot Toddy the Silver Fox way. A Hot [...] You were probably already aware that there’s about 1500-odd free MP3s available for download from Amazon? But maybe you didn’t know there’s more free bagpipe music available than you’ll ever need. Unless you’re me of course. I like bag pipe music. It’s just the thing to get you marching about the house when there’s work [...] Submitted for your consideration: an interview with Brian Ibbott, host and creator of Coverville, the podcast you should all be listening to on a regular basis. Tomorrow the first four Replacements albums – Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash, Stink, Hootenanny, and Let It Be – will be reissued, in remastered form with bonus tracks, by Rhino Records. My initial reaction was ‘meh, I don’t really need to buy these albums again,’ but this article may have changed my [...] I’ve written previously of the limited selection of LPs in my house growing up, and the fact that any LPs my sister and/or I liked were absolutely played to death. My sister favored Annie and Free To Be You And Me, while I tended towards the Clancy Brothers and my anthology of cowboy songs. I [...] You may have already seen this, but Muxtape is a pretty interesting way to share music. You upload mp3s to a digital mix tape that other folks can listen to by streaming the audio. Here’s mine. And here’s someone else’s. |
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