Jan
08
Skip to Yahoo! WebPlayer At some point during college, my friend P.O. made the observation that if it weren’t for the Jackson 5, 90′s hip-hop would have either not existed or sounded a lot different. His point being that so much of the great hip-hop music released during that decade sampled music from the Jackson …
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Nov
29
I admit I was a bit dismissive when Fleet Foxes originally released Helplessness Blues. I suppose I was expecting a bit more and felt underwhelmed. However, over the past couple of months, I’ve watched as the album has launched the band into super stardom and I decided to give the album another chance. I’ve come …
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Oct
28
When I attended Lon Morris College, dorms bookended the campus, two at each end. On one end you Clark Hall and Brown Hall, which served as the dorms for the baseball and softball teams respectively. On the other end, you had Fair Hall, which housed the other male students, and Craven-Wilson, which housed all other …
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Oct
07
A few nights ago, while sorting through a spool of CDs on my desk, I stumbled across my wife’s copy of the Pixies’ Surfer Rosa. Intrigued, I added the CD to my iPod. I’ve always felt my knowledge of the Pixies to be a bit inadequate, so I was super excited to experience an album …
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Sep
24
I love rock ‘n roll, always have and I’m sure I always will. Most kids grow up listening to cutesy sing-alongs like “The Itsy Bitsy Spider” or “The Wheels on the Bus”, while I cut my teeth on Billy Idol, Cinderella, Ratt, Bruce Springsteen & Dire Straits. From the age of 8 until 13, around …
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Sep
22
There was a time, believe it or not, when I did not appreciate the Grateful Dead. I blame it on ignorance. Early on, my exposure to the Dead was limited to the few times the local classic rock station would play “Casey Jones” or “Touch of Grey”. Based on those two songs alone, I formed …
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Aug
02
Scientists have long searched for “missing links,” those archaeological finds that fill evolutionary gaps. Just as an archaeological link exists between the species, so to an album (link) exists between all points in rock history. For example, our parents didn’t just wake up one morning to find Elvis after decades of Lawrence Welk . Music …
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Jul
31
Do you remember the summer of ’91? That summer we watched the Soviet Union continue to dissolve, Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested in Milwaukee and the Super Nintendo was introduced. In the world of music, The Scorpions rocked the world with their “farewell to communism” ballad–”Winds of Change”–women all over the nation swooned to Extreme’s “More …
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Jul
24
Yesterday, as the tragic news of Amy Winehouse’s death began to break, my Twitter and Facebook feed began to explode with various references to Ms. Winehouse joining a very exclusive club of young, talented musicians who passed at the age of 27–Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain and Brian Jones. While I certainly …
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Jul
22
Today, something odd happened. My iPod stumped me. I had my iPod on shuffle (all 7,153 songs) and had just finished listening to Willie Nelson’s “Sad Songs and Waltzes”, when I heard the slow whine of a pedal steel. “Wonderful,” I thought, “from Willie to a nice alt-country tune.” But as hard as I tried, …
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