Addicted To Vinyl

Who enjoys networking on Twitter?
This guy.
New and interesting people continue to find their way on to my radar via Twitter. Like recent Yale graduate Hannah Friedman, who is writing her first book Everything Sucks: Losing My Mind and Finding Myself in a High School Quest for Cool, a “teenage memoir” that will […]

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As a geek, there are two things I love these days.
Two things of many things I love, I guess.
One is Itunes gift cards.
Another one is Amazon gift certificates.
I had a $25 gift certificate for Amazon that I’ve been sitting on for a couple of months (which is unprecedented for me,) that I finally got around […]

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Nope this isn’t Ben Folds, Snoop, or even Dre related, but this is instead a post for my fellow music geeks. Take a couple of Chicago’s well known music critics who happen to work for competing newspapers, and give them a radio show to discuss, argue, and dissect music. The result is a […]

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Hey Cleveland!
What are you doing Saturday morning/afternoon? I just read about a cool event via John Gorman’s blog:
The Rock and Roll Carnival, sponsored by 91.3 The Summit is happening tomorrow (Saturday) at Borders in Fairlawn from 11am-5pm.
Gorman will be there to talk about and sign copies of his book The Buzzard.
Gorman […]

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This week, I got a copy of the “collector’s edition” of Rudy Sarzo’s (Dio, Quiet Riot, Whitesnake, Ozzy Osbourne, Yngwie Malmsteen) book Off The Rails - Aboard The Crazy Train in the Blizzard of Ozz. The book is billed as “a tribute to Randy Rhoads” and indeed, that is exactly what it is. […]

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My good comrade Chris Akin and I have been involved in the entertainment scene for over 10 years. As all music fans do, we’ve had many musical arguments, but we are musical brothers in arms on many things like Journey, Night Ranger, and Bruce Springsteen.
Chris first nabbed my respect by knowing that Survivor […]

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Happy Saturday from the Cleve! First of all, I was thrilled that my review of the new Smithereens live album wound up front and center on lead singer Pat Dinizio’s website. Thanks Pat!
You can talk to Lou Reed about a lot of different things - just don’t ask him any stock questions.
Billy Joel’s […]

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“Slayer have as much integrity as those hipster bands who carp on and on about integrity. They just go out and make that record, and do that tour. They don’t talk about integrity. They don’t need to. And that’s what gives Slayer undeniable power, impeachable credibility. If you notice, the […]

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