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Maria McKee and The Jayhawks - Precious Time
I had a different Gary Louris-related post in waiting, but it isn’t every day that Louris announces a reunion show with the 94/95 era lineup of The Jayhawks, so let’s focus on that for a second, shall we?
Louris shared the following intoxicating information in a recent blog […]

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Barenaked Ladies - Gordon (original cover artwork)
For the past few weeks, I’ve been jonesing to hear “Brian Wilson” by Barenaked Ladies, specifically the live version that appears on Rock Spectacle. In one of my rare excursions driving a car, I took the CD with me, popped it in the player, and it wouldn’t play. […]

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I don’t know if you’re following the updates on Juliana Hatfield’s Myspace page, but if you are a fan and you’re not, you’re missing out on a lot of great reading! Hatfield has been blogging regular updates that unmask songs from her catalog in great detail.

Become What You Are is an important album from […]

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I saw this post, and I chuckled.
Had to share it with you all.
Hey internets, here’s a SONG FOR FREE, SONG FOR FREE, everybody download now! It’s 8 minutes and 35 seconds of… wait, what is this song again? Has anybody even heard it before? Seriously. Actually, I’m shocked that the band was able to create […]

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I spent this past week in Minneapolis for the annual Conclave radio convention.
Unlike previous years, I really didn’t go to a ton of the panel discussions/sessions this year, because I had a pretty full schedule for work.
Lee Abrams gave a speech, and having worked with Lee briefly at one point when […]

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I’m in Minneapolis for work, and was in a cab tonight, headed back to the hotel after dinner.
My fellow vinyl loving friend and co-worker Michael made note that he thought that the cab driver had a tattoo of one of those old 45 adapters. After taking a closer stealth look, he determined that that […]

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If you’re a Springsteen fan like me (and I know you are, because you’re reading this,) you’ve likely been salivating, reading the setlists from Backstreets over the past week.
My Springsteen buddy Tony emailed me with a message that said simply “the sooner you click this link, the better you will feel.”
I knew he wasn’t kidding […]

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We’re gonna take our time tonight….
I’m watching the Pearl Jam “official bootleg” DVD Live At The Showbox , a DVD as you can probably guess of their show from the Showbox in Seattle, captured on December 6th, 2002.
The gig starts off in a mellow place….”Small Town,” “Off He Goes,” and “Thumbing My Way”….how awesome is […]

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I was in the midst of enjoying an evening with Tom Petty at Blossom Music Center on Sunday night with my friends Ryan and Julie. I had seats in the pavilion, but was sitting on the lawn with them, and as Petty pulled out a mix of album tracks and proven hits, we conversed […]

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