Addicted To Vinyl

Back in February, I was among the many music fans that were following with interest, the story about the mammoth record collection that was on Ebay with a price tag of three million dollars.
What will three million dollars get you?
You’ll acquire a modest music collection made up of:
3 million albums.
300,000 CDs.
More than 6 million song […]

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The new Extreme album Saudades de Rock officially hit the streets this past Tuesday. (purchase)
Listen to the full album via AOL right here.
Prior to the album’s official release, I had the opportunity to see the Cleveland date of the current reunion tour at House of Blues, which found the band anchoring a musician’s dream […]

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Saw this in one of Bob Lefsetz’s recent dispatches - Rush were on a recent episode of The Colbert Report and took a crack at playing their own song……on Rock Band.
Check out the video below.
Priceless!

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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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My friend Becky emailed me recently about the recent PBS Soundstage broadcast featuring REO Speedwagon to find out if I had seen it.
As it happens, I had just read about the broadcast (and missed it, of course,) and found that PBS already has a DVD of the full show for sale.
The […]

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I wrote briefly about the pending new release from Randy Newman, and now thanks to Tampa Bay pop music writer Sean Daly, I’ve got a few more details to share with you about the album. The album, called Harps and Angels, is in stores on August 5th.
Sean writes:
NPR’s All Songs Considered is raving about […]

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Maria McKee and The Jayhawks - Precious Time
I had a different Gary Louris-related post in waiting, but it isn’t every day that Louris announces a reunion show with the 94/95 era lineup of The Jayhawks, so let’s focus on that for a second, shall we?
Louris shared the following intoxicating information in a recent blog […]

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If you’re a Springsteen fan like me (and I know you are, because you’re reading this,) you’ve likely been salivating, reading the setlists from Backstreets over the past week.
My Springsteen buddy Tony emailed me with a message that said simply “the sooner you click this link, the better you will feel.”
I knew he wasn’t kidding […]

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We’re gonna take our time tonight….
I’m watching the Pearl Jam “official bootleg” DVD Live At The Showbox , a DVD as you can probably guess of their show from the Showbox in Seattle, captured on December 6th, 2002.
The gig starts off in a mellow place….”Small Town,” “Off He Goes,” and “Thumbing My Way”….how awesome is […]

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I enjoy Lonn Friend’s reflections on the past, present, and future yet to come. In his latest dispatch, he visits a number of topics, including the filming of the Guns ‘n Roses video for “Patience.”
Read on….

link to original Myspace post
How do you know when the shadows have really given way to light? […]

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