My pal Burgo has been singing the praises of The Damnwells for as long as I’ve known him, and today is the day that their music finally hooked me. And perhaps it will hook you too. Starting today (Tuesday): You can download One Last Century, the new album from The Damnwells – FOR FREE from […]
Category: Good Listening
Good Listening: Ben Folds – Live in Berlin – 6-4-05
Greetings all, I’ve had a monstrous cocktail of the flu, bronchitis, and my usual friend asthma hanging out since this past Tuesday. During this unexpectedly fun week of hotel illness, I cracked the highest fever I’ve ever had – 104.5. I’m technically out of the woods now, but still lacking lots on the energy side […]
Too Much Evan Dando is Never Enough and Other 90s Misadventures Retold and Redrawn
As you’ll know from reading the stuff that shows up here, 90s nostalgia is everlasting and ongoing in my world. It never goes out of style. Today I joined a Facebook group for music fans that “grew up listening” to 107.9 The End, the legendary Cleveland alternative station in the 90s. The End was the […]
Wednesday: Dropping the needle in Los Angeles
Los Angeles peeps will have something to look forward to on Wednesday besides the usual smog, traffic, and people that look like famous people that probably are actually famous people. ATV reader Mitzye got in touch with me to let me know about the pending return of Album Sides Wednesday on KSWD-FM “100.3 The Sound.” […]
Good Listening: The Lemonheads – Live in Chicago – 7/4/94
When Beth and I had our little vinyl meetup the other day, we spent a good amount of time talking about Evan Dando and The Lemonheads. It’s A Shame About Ray and Come On Feel The Lemonheads are two of my 90s desert island discs from my teenage years. If it was possible to wear […]
DXMas….a different kinda holiday mix tape for your listening pleasure
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 “return to […]
Good Listening: Special Aimee Mann Holiday Edition
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 remember how much […]
Good Listening: Georgia Satellites – Peabody’s Down Under – 12/11/88
This past week, Georgia Satellites singer Dan Baird turned 55 years young. Baird hasn’t been a part of the Sats for nearly 20 years now, and in that time, he’s been making a steady stream of records. Good ones. Dan Baird – I Love You Period (live on Letterman) First up came a couple of […]
Good Listening: Bruce Hornsby – Cleveland Music Hall – 11/20/93
Fifteen years ago, a Cleveland music fan in his late teens walked into Music Hall on the fence about Bruce Hornsby. He’d heard the necessary tunes, but had a couple of albums missing from his Hornsby collection. Yeah, that was me, and I couldn’t have picked a better show to fill in the gaps on […]
How much for that Smiths widget in that there window?
You knew it had to happen eventually – The Smiths have been “widgetized,” a term which we believe originates from somewhere within Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Or perhaps it might have come from somewhere in the back of Morrissey’s closet. Regardless of the origins, we continue to enjoy The Sound of The Smiths, the recently […]