Addicted To Vinyl

Greetings from Cleveland! Foreigner at House of Blues is next up on the concert agenda, tomorrow night. Setlist and a brief report will come early next week!
We’ll start with a not-so-quick hit:
Jayhawks fans, get happy - there are two Jayhawks-related releases coming out in September! And if you live in Spain, September 4th […]

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Welcome to August!
As I was leaving the house this morning to head for rapid transit, I grabbed the latest issue of Rolling Stone (with The Jonas Brothers on the cover) off of my kitchen counter. My eyes did a double take scanning the cover when I saw the headline “Mark Knopfler’s Second Act.”
Indeed, inside […]

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Greetings from Cleveland, where you’re only as old as you feel…..and with some of the news from this week, I’m feeling pretty old.
For example, August 5th will see the release of the 15th Anniversary Edition of one my favorite albums from the 90s, a special 2 CD/1DVD package of Sarah Mclachlan’s Fumbling Towards Ecstasy.
The special […]

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Another busy week in the can, thank goodness!
First, a rock and roll recap from the week that was….
I saw quite a bit of live music this week, including:
The New Frontiers / Below Jupiter / Liza Bundy at the Beachland Tavern on Monday night (recap here.)
Wednesday night, I saw what was (believe it or […]

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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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This isn’t exactly an earth shattering lineup announcement, although the lineup is indeed earth shattering. Instead, this is an announcement of my intentions to once again attend the Virgin Mobile Festival this year in August. I had a phenomenal time last August in Baltimore with the Police, Beastie Boys, Cheap Trick, Fountains of […]

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Funny randomness - My rock and roll comrade TDavid had a post today talking about among other things, the upcoming album from AC/DC, which is currently being helmed by Brendan O’Brien, who has certainly had his hands on a number of great rock albums over the years, and maintains a diverse selection of clients from […]

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Coldplay made the first music from their upcoming new album available for free download (for one week only) today via their official website.
The official website has been slammed, so here it is for your listening pleasure.
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Coldplay are a guilty pleasure for me that I got into a long time after many had finished drooling over […]

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Ah, the record store, my first true love, and a relationship that remains true to this day. I worked at a record store as recently as 2006, when I picked up a Saturday shift to have fun and talk music. I saw it as a good potential opportunity to blow off steam from […]

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Thanks to Bob Lefsetz for getting my attention with a mention of this:
It’s always fun to call out a major print magazine, and The Huffington Post does just that with this great article that looks at the Rolling Stone review history for recent R.E.M. albums starting with the current CD Accelerate.
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It’s sarcasm at its finest. […]

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