While perusing the Winchester’s schedule on Sunday night, my jaw dropped at the show announced for January 27, 2010: Lloyd Cole Trio. I immediately flashed back to 2006. In November of that year, I flew to Cleveland for a few days, with the express purpose of catching Placebo at the Agora and Cole at the […]
Category: Reissues
Cool Sale @ Blue Arrow Records + Vinyl Saturday!
The Record Store Day folks are having another one of their semi-annual Vinyl Saturday events on, um, Saturday, across the United States and perhaps even in parts of Canada – we didn’t get a chance to check in with our Canadian neighbors on that point. Perhaps coincidentally, our pal Pete at Blue Arrow Records is […]
Favorite Beatles covers?
As you might have heard, remastered copies of the Beatles catalog are coming out today. I say this sarcastically knowing that some of you are swinging the proverbial cat around and around in the air, trying to miss the global coverage of this event, and you….just…CAN’T miss it! The Beatles have nabbed the front cover […]
Win Stuff: Twisted Sister – Stay Hungry 25th Anniversary
Hello again, my little rabble rousers! Today, we’re going to travel back 25 years to the time when Twisted Sister released a landmark slab of music called Stay Hungry. You own it. You’ve owned it. You probably even owned it in multiple formats. You bought the t-shirt, and you went to the concert. The album […]
Contest: Win Jane’s Addiction Vinyl!
I’d like to start by congratulating Craig & Stacy – They are the lucky winners of vinyl copies of the new Thin Lizzy live album Still Dangerous! Congratulations to you both! If that winner isn’t you, don’t be sad, read onward! Thanks to my man Rob and the fine folks at Warner Brothers Records, I’ve […]
The Band – The Last Waltz
Having my own music blog has really magnified one of the things that I love most about life – the musical journeys that you take, and are introduced to, by friends. A couple of weeks ago, I was catching up on the massive stack of blogs in my Google Reader…..which really makes me think about […]
IRS Records Catalog Finally Goes Digital
Thanks to a Facebook note from music pal Will Harris, I saw the following note that will make many music nerds happy! Dunno how many others are aware of the fact that a lot of classic albums from the great IRS Records have finally escaped from oblivion and gone digital. I guess there’s been a […]