I hope you’ve been enjoying our two-week burst of Lemonhead-fresh tunes, because to wrap it all up in true Bootleg City fashion, Robert has donated a collection of Lemonheads and…
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Indulge a few moments of paternal pride, if you will. My wife and I took our daughter and our friends, Brad and Felina, to the beach today. On the way…
Sheena Easton, the adult comtemporary pop princess of the early ’80s, got a bit of a makeover in 1984 with her album, A Private Heaven, thanks to the Top 5…
Pointer Sisters – Hot Together (1986) purchase this album (Amazon) To my generation, the Pointer Sisters were an act that leapt fully formed out of the Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack;…
What were you doing in 1986? If you were a suburban kid with access to a radio or MTV, you were experiencing the dawn of rap as a commercial force…
Welcome back, folks, to another edition of Adventures Through The Mines Of Mellow Gold! This week’s post is going to be a bit different, since I attended a real, live…
I think most of us, at one point or another, have carried an unrequited torch for someone. Mine happened to last, off and on, for about five years, meaning that…
Jonah Smith – Jonah Smith (2007)purchase this album (JRS Direct) Smith bills himself as a “roots/soul singer-songwriter,” but musically, he’s less Bill Withers (or even Ray LaMontagne) than Amos Lee….
(For more information, see 2 Meter Sessions: Volume One) Southside Johnny & The Ashbury Jukes – Southside Johnny & The Ashbury Jukes – It’s Been A Long TimeThe Tragically Hip…
Salt-N-Pepa – Let’s Talk About Sex (remix) (1991) Aww yeah. Yet another box of free cassingles showed up here this week Á¢€” eighty of ’em this time Á¢€” meaning that…
George Benson – The Gentle Rain from Beyond the Blue Horizon (1971)The Jenerators – Don’t Wanna Wait from The Jenerators (1994)Stan Getz & Kenny Barron – I’m Okay from Café…
Part 1 in a once-a-week, yearlong series designed to get you off your dead ass and dancin’. Shake it, bitches! Art of Noise – Beat Box (Diversion 1)
Welcome back to another fun-filled edition of CHART ATTACK! I really love this week. At the time, I was 10 years old, and was starting to listen to the radio…
Billy Ocean – Tear Down These Walls (1988) purchase this album (Amazon) Oh, Billy Ocean. How is it we’re just now getting to you? Wait, I know Á¢€” I fucking…
No, don’t you dare click to the next blog. Seriously, you’re going to like this one a lot more than you think you will. The quintessential one-hit wonder, Toni Basil…
Welcome back, folks, to another week of Adventures Through The Mines Of Mellow Gold! I want you to know that I am covering today’s song under great duress. It took…
Bryan Eich – Sleeping By a Wire (2007)purchase this album (CD Baby) Fans of deliciously hooky Britpop (by way of Brooklyn) have a new best friend in Bryan Eich, whose…
The Replacements – Nightclub Jitters from Pleased to Meet Me (1987)The Cars – Since You’re Gone from Shake It Up (1981)Paul Carrack – Burning Love from Eyes of Blue (single)…
Stacy Lattisaw was a mere 16 years old in 1983 (the Best Year for Music Ever!) and had already notched two Top 40 hits and a number one Dance Club…
In our second installment of tracks from Cheap Trick’s legendary New Year’s Eve show at L.A.’s Forum, we’re going to forego any further delay of gratification and focus on the…
Hooray for Friday! The end of another work-week, and time to rip open another Top 10 from the vaults. How about July 12, 1980? 10. Let Me Love You Tonight…
Well, hello there. Nice to see you. What’s that? Lost B-sides Week was last week? I haven’t posted anything since? I’m sure I don’t know what you’re talking about. Ahem….
No Second Troy – Narcotic (2007)purchase this album (CD Baby) Almost since there was such a thing as rock & roll, the people who love it have been split into…
On New Year’s Eve 1979, Cheap Trick, riding a crest of massive international success via the multi-platinum At Budokan record (and the newly released Dream Police), came to L.A.’s Forum…
Hi again, everybody! It’s that time again – that time when we dissolve any sense of self-respect and go spelunking through the Mines Of Mellow Gold! David Soul – Don’t…
I’m not sure how many of you read my other blog, but you may have missed this post where I linked to a Brain Melting Video of the most…inventive…performance of…
Talking Heads – Psycho Killer from Stop Making Sense (reissue) (1999)Rod Stewart – Let Me Be Your Car from Smiler (1974)Ryuichi Sakamoto – Energy Flow from BTTB (1999)Bill Janovitz and…
Howdy, everybody! We’re back for yet another week of this crazy lil’ thing called CHART ATTACK! Hope you’re ready to help me tear apart the Top 10 from July 6,…
Al Jarreau – Heart’s Horizon (1988)purchase this album (Amazon) First of all, I love Al Jarreau. Let’s start there. And by “I love Al Jarreau” I mean I love his…
We just talked about Gene Loves Jezebel recently, so why not feature a Lost B-side from the fey, scarf-twirling duo? While I’ve previously lamented that today’s featured song’s a-side was…