Contest: Win a copy of Purple Rain on vinyl!

Howdy folks! We’re in the midst of a holidays-related break from posting, and until normal posting resumes, we’re going to wrap up the year with a couple of contests! Earlier this year, Tom and the fine folks at Because Sound Matters/Warner Brothers sent us a mighty fine vinyl care package made up of a hefty […]

R.I.P. Vic Chesnutt

I was never a huge Vic Chesnutt fan, but it was more due to ignorance than active dislike. The Athens, Georgia, singer-songwriter released about an album a year and toured quite a bit, so he became one of those artists that was always around, someone I “always meant to check out.” Still, because I was […]

A Very Cleveland Christmas

In the ’80s, a Cleveland Christmas meant several things: Going downtown to Higbee’s to see Santa, watching Mr. Jingeling — the “keeper of the keys” — on TV and hitting the Twigbee Shop. The latter was a store-within-a-store which paired a helpful elf with young children, so they could shop for their parents’ presents by […]