Addicted To Vinyl

Here we are at the beginning of another holiday weekend!! Happy new year to you all!!
But let’s talk about the previous holiday weekend, which I’ll sum up in one word:
Productive.
I went to the thrift store to drop off a couple of boxes of CDs, and while I was there, I picked up […]

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Assuming that you’re not drunkenly passed out from too much of that “special” eggnog, here’s some more special holiday musical cheer for your ears.
A few years back, I received a suspiciously labeled package in the mail with my address scratched semi-illegibly on the face of the package. While I would normally mark […]

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I couldn’t exactly think of a subject line that was completely appropriate, and the above seemed to at least cover it, although there are probably some that would argue (myself included!) that this blog is ALL about “scattered musical thoughts!”
Anyway.
Friday night, I got together with my buddy Corey for a long overdue hangout (two years […]

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I picked up Esquire Magazine’s 8th annual Meaning of Life issue over the weekend. Fifty interviews, one person from each state. I was sucked in by Clint Eastwood on the cover, and also seeing the names of Little Steven…..and Chloë Sevigny?
Inside the table of contents, Mickey Rourke.
Sold.
Side note: […]

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If you’re still searching around a bit for that Xmas spirit, boy do I have something that’s going to help out a lot!
First, a quick flashback to last year’s holidays: Last year’s holiday cheer was provided in my household with the debut of a Christmas album from The Smithereens. You all […]

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Consider this a followup to my post about the new Jules Shear album More that I posted here yesterday.
But first, I need to tell you how I got into the music of Jules Shear. Some of my best friends are friends that I met who were working at record stores I went to frequently. […]

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Something else to look forward to in 2009…..STOKED!!
Hey Rob, you’d better be going to the show in March at the Key Club, or we’re no longer friends!!!

From the band’s Myspace page:
Due to the nature of vague speculation albeit created by your authors here, Armored Saint are officially announcing that they’ve begun writing new […]

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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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So I’m sitting around tonight, and I had a thought that has come around occasionally in recent months:
What the heck is Jules Shear up to?
If you’re asking me who Jules is - here’s a couple of stats - As a songwriter, he wrote “All Through The Night” for Cyndi Lauper, and “If She Knew What […]

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Blogging buddy and occasional Ohio resident Kevin Mason throws me a nice shoutout that documents on video the recent conversation that several of us had on Facebook that started with a simple comment about Kevin’s status update, which had to do with the whole Coldplay/Joe Satriani thing. By the time it was over, […]

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