When Bruce Springsteen started doing the full album performance thang recently with a performance of Born to Run in Chicago, a few of us conversed about the albums that we’d really like to see him perform. You know the ones I’m talking about – The Wild, The Innocent and The E Street Shuffle, and Greetings […]
Category: Maybe We Ain’t That Young Anymore
Touch, Peel, and Hate this Song
I have an idea for a little bit of audience participation. As you know, we’re all about the audience participation here at Addicted to Vinyl! I’d like your help in making a special mix of annoying songs that you never want to hear on the radio, ever again. Now, these might be good songs, they […]
Death by shuffle mode
This past week I read an interesting article about “the death of the album.” It gave me pause and I suddenly realized that lately, to me, yeah the album has been pretty dead. I used to have quite a voracious appetite for new music. Even when I was younger I can remember trips into New […]
Radio Ga Ga Saved My Life Tonight
When I was a kid, up until about the age of eleven, we moved around a lot. My father’s engineering job took us to such exotic locales as Port Huron, Michigan and Norcross, Georgia. It also dumped us in Wiesbaden, Germany for about 8 months in 1976/1977. Seeing as how I didn’t really speak the […]
I hope I die before I sing out of tune
Editor’s note: Say hello to the new guy here at Addicted to Vinyl, Kurt Torster. Who is this Kurt guy? Read more about that here! So I guess I’m officially old. Not physically so much, but at 42 I’ve got a degenerative hip that will tell you otherwise. No, I guess I’m really talking about […]
Hold On….Wilson Phillips is coming back
In 1990, I don’t think that I could have predicted that one day I’d be reading about a Wilson Phillips reunion via something called “the internet” on a website called The Music Slut. Am I a music slut too? The Music Slut led me to an article at FemaleFirst featuring a short interview with Carnie […]
On the road again, but not quite
Yesterday, I got to use the term “throwing the horns” while putting together an upcoming press release for work. I’m going to go ahead and mark that day in the “win” column. Not bad. Today, day off. Going to see Blue Rodeo in Detroit tonight, in case you’ve been sleeping the past week. My friend […]
And how much did you pay for your rock’n’roll t-shirt, that proves you were there…
Thanks to Pete @ Blogness on the Edge of Town for pointing me towards this great essay courtesy of former Sleater-Kinney member Carrie Brownstein – SO awesome…. I used to have such an awesome ticket stub collection prior to three moves in a year and a half…..I keep hoping that one day that I’ll have […]
My 80s summer music fix has been officially booked!
I mentioned briefly in a recent post, my plans to journey to Dayton, OH to see Night Ranger. When I saw the date pop up on Night Ranger’s Myspace page, I gave it a casual glance, and figured that it was an opening slot. Opening slots, as much as I love Night Ranger, aren’t really […]
VIDEO – Jane’s Addiction Reunited
The original lineup of Jane’s Addiction (with Eric Avery!) reunites for the first time in nearly two decades for a four song performance at the NME Awards USA. The band reunited to accept the inaugural NME Godlike Genius Award for the U.S., presented at past UK Award ceremonies to U2, Paul McCartney, New Order, and […]