“For in this darkness, love can show the way” Singer/songwriter David Wilcox (not to be confused with the Canadian rocker) has been a longtime favorite of mine. I first came across his music in 1991, and was captured by his CD titled Home Again, which had the subtext title of “for the first time.” In […]
Category: Good Reads
Another great summary of the Petty/Mudcrutch project
I know you might be Mudcrutch’ed out at this point, but this gives me a good chance to throw a nice plug to one of my favorite blogs, and that would be Sean Daly’s Pop Music blog for the St. Petersburg Times. Sean is also one half of the blogging team for my other favorite […]
I might not be the only one that’s addicted to vinyl
This one is for the vinyl junkies. I read the following dispatch of email replies to Bob Lefsetz with interest. In particular, take note of the forwarded email from legendary mastering guru Bob Ludwig. In reply to Sound Quality Here are the replies. In particular: Michael Fremer: A) Blu-ray is not a disaster. In fact, […]
YES! My personal heroes of peace and love confirm they are working on new material!
Yes – Hold On (live on the Union tour in 1991) I can already hear the debate beginning among Yes fans, but me, I am STOKED to read the following story at Billboard.com! Additionally, I am happy once again to hear Jon Anderson hint at possible collaboration with former Yes man Trevor Rabin. I’m hoping […]
Record Store Day and how I managed to miss it
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 the week, […]
Bruce Springsteen’s eulogy for Danny Federici
When people want to know why I have such a strong love for Bruce’s music, and Bruce as a person, I’ve always got at least one example that I can point to. Now, here is the latest example as posted at brucespringsteen.net: The eulogy as delivered by Bruce Springsteen, for 40 year E. Street Band […]
Great interview with Pat DiNizio from The Smithereens
If you’re a Smithereens fan (and you SHOULD BE!) like I am, then you will dig reading an expanded unedited version of an interview with ‘Reens frontman Pat DiNizio that is sourced from an edited version that ran last year in The Aquarian, New Jersey’s rock paper. Kudos to Clifford Meth for sharing this great […]
Behind the Cinderella story of Buckcherry and the album that nobody wanted
Without a doubt, the story of the reemergence and subsequent success of Buckcherry with their current album “15,” is a great, and at times, often unbelievable story. I’ve heard many parts of this story in the past couple of years since the album was released, but here it is, all in one place to read […]
R.E.M.’s new album is great, and the past few sucked, right? Well….
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. link It’s sarcasm […]
Shelby Lynne loves the analog
Kudos to the fine folks over at The Vinyl District for this great reading from Shelby Lynne about her new album Just A Little Lovin’. On a side note, she mentions legendary record producer Phil Ramone (Billy Joel, etc) within this article. If you haven’t read Phil’s great book Making Records yet, it is a […]