Listening to rock radio in the early ’90s — particularly the college and ‘alternative’ varieties — was an experience like no other. The ratio of tolerable to intolerable music was…
Jon Cummings
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Last week’s massive international celebration of Vinyl Record Day (wait — you say that big party they showed on TV was about the Olympics?) reminded me of my teenage fascination…
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Will Harris
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When music journalist Martin Fry popped ’round a practice by the band Vice Versa in Sheffield, England, in 1980, it’s unlikely that he had any idea that he was embarking…
Will Harris
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Many miles have I traveled since I first knowingly encountered the music of Isaac Hayes, so I hope you’ll forgive me if my memory is a bit hazy, but I’ve…
Molly Marinik
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We’re one week in to the New York International Fringe Festival with one more week to go. With 202 plays and musicals of all varieties from all over the world…
Jeff Giles
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Bruce Hornsby – The Show Goes On (live) Bruce Hornsby – Gonna Be Some Changes Made/Brick House (live) Bruce Hornsby – Swan Song (live) Bruce Hornsby – Tangled Up in…
Dave Matos and Mikey Newman
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The Chartburn Panel
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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/9Z-fE1l9SZ4″ width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Mainstream Rock: Steve Winwood, “Higher Love” (1986) David Lifton: You couldn’t get a more perfect crossover record than this in 1986: A classic rock…
Bob Cashill
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Outside of a few odds and ends, the summer movie season pretty much concludes today. Throw the tarp over the pool, recondition the leaf blower, it’s done. If you’re willing…
Dw. Dunphy
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Have you read the entertainment news today? Oh boy. A particularly dreadful tune is set to break some major records for sales, this week’s new movies arriving under a mantle…
Jon Cummings
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Charlie Daniels Band – The Devil Went Down to Georgia My apologies in advance for taking occasional license with the meter… Johnny Mac went down to Georgia, he was lookin’…
John C. Hughes
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Naked Eyes, ABC, Belinda Carlisle, and the Human League are currently crisscrossing the country on the Regeneration Tour, an oldies-revival trek that thankfully isn’t entirely mired in nostalgia, since all…
Mojo Flucke
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I am a reformed audiophile. A hybrid type of sound geek, with one foot in the strange world of excellent sound and the whackos who populate it, and the other…
Scott Malchus
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I am running for my son. That is the mantra I repeated to myself in times of exhaustion when I was training for my first two marathons back in 2003…
Terje Fjelde
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Over the next year Terje Fjelde has agreed to listen to nothing but David Foster on his iPod. He’s loaded the thing with over 1,200 songs produced, arranged, composed, and/or…
Ben Wiser
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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/RZ2uie1feKA” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Our regular featured test will appear next week. Peace and farewell, Black Moses…
Taylor Long
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A couple weeks ago, a friend and I went to see Jarvis Cocker play at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. The opener was Kuroma, a name that neither my friend…
Ken Shane
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Tepoztlan, Morelas, Mexico is a place known for Aztec magic and extra-terrestrial sightings — so it only seems natural that Conor Oberst would head down there to record his latest…
David Medsker
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The public, by and large, did not respond well to George Michael’s first attempt at career suicide — he’s since found far more effective methods for achieving that goal, and…
Dave Steed
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I turned on the radio the other day for the first time in months and the first thing I heard was “more music, less talk,” so that’s what we’re going…
Zack Dennis
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A number of months ago, Darren Robbins posted a column discussing how brazen arrogance seemed to be the most valuable asset in a playboy’s pickup arsenal. If this is true,…
DJ D
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LOCATION: Anytown, USA TIME: The Early ’80’s A young, burgeoning music fan has got to start somewhere. This is the brief, snappily-written story of how a young man with a…
Ted Asregadoo
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics for July states that 5.7% of Americans are unemployed. Percentages are sometimes difficult to visualize, so how about this number: 8.8 million people are officially…
John C. Hughes
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We’ve talked before about songs we loved in our younger days that just don’t quite hold up to an older ear’s scrutiny. Unfortunately (or not, if you still love it),…
David Medsker
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Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends”¦well, I suppose it will end, as soon as I run out of ideas for album covers, but let’s not think…
Dw. Dunphy
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Porcupine Tree has been, for well on a decade now, a cult favorite trying to simply be a favorite, but there has been a problem in making that happen. That…
Ted Asregadoo
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE When you’re a young adult and trying to find your way in the world, it can be a very liberating period.Á‚ It’s a time when…
Jon Cummings
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When the compact disc was introduced in the mid-’80s, one of its main selling points (along with allegedly superior digital sound) was its durability. Vinyl records, we all knew, could…