Dateline: Saturday morning at 7am. I’m at the Rock Hall waiting in line to buy tickets for this year’s induction ceremony happening in Cleveland. For the first time ever, tickets are being sold to the public. Brian and I are determined to not be the suckers sitting at home watching it on TV while it’s […]
Category: The 00s
Review: Jason and the Scorchers – Beachland Ballroom – 12/31/08
Well hello vinyl citizens! So it seems that I’ve been away for a little bit. I’m so behind the blogging 8 ball, I don’t know where to begin! Real life has been hogging up large amounts of my precious free time of late. Mother Nature also kindly decided to dump a hella-ton of snow on […]
Trent Reznor got mad, and now he’s getting even
Thanks to Burgo for the Twitter heads up on this: UPDATED 1/12/08 (see below): Remember the plans that Trent Reznor had for a 3-D concert film documenting the recent Nine Inch Nails Lights in the Sky tour? As you’ll recall, the project fell through, allegedly due to Reznor’s former label Interscope declining to fund the […]
Latest purchases: The holiday weekend edition.
This morning I feel a bit like Jim Carrey hearing the voices and problems of everyone in Bruce Almighty. Except I’m hearing nothing but Duran Duran fans arguing over the band’s most recent album Red Carpet Massacre, which is at least humorous. I’m guessing that like GNR and Journey fans, they can probably keep going […]
Laserdiscs and a vinyl-loaded trip to Detroit
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 […]
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 […]
Scattered Musical Thoughts: GNR, Supermint and Dog Society
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 […]
The Meaning of Life according to Clint Eastwood and Little Steven
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: I kinda have a […]
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 […]
5 from Jules Shear + More about “More”
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. […]