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  This week, our old house is under-going a thorough updating of our ancient knob & tube to modern electrical systems. This means, at le...

  A couple months ago, I was scrolling news stories on my phone and came upon a click-bate looking article, "100 most valuable cassette...

    Yet another "classic" album is getting the anniversary tour treatment with Weezer celebrating the 30th anniversary of their d...

    I still have it, my actual copy! One of the first record albums I bought (with my own money) was in elementary school and for whatever r...

   “August 2, 1957 — February 7, 2024 Mojo Nixon. How you live is how you should die. Mojo Nixon was full-tilt, wide-open rock hard, root h...

  There are certain albums that are career-making for artists that are best known for that record even years later. For Liz Phair , it was h...

    As promised, here's the rest of the Palace Theatre show with the headliners, the Jayhawks. Though this wasn't necessarily a ...

    Happy New Year!! To begin the new year, I have an excellent concert to end 2023 with! (well, halfway through December, close enough) The...

   It has been 40 years since, the Violent Femmes released their landmark debut album, Violent Femmes . The album was hugely influential for...

    Before the end of 2023, I thought I would squeeze in a couple of shows that celebrated anniversaries for significant albums for a pair o...

   Yeah, it's been awhile since I posted last and since that time it feels like we've passed through two seasons. There's snow o...

  Sometimes the story behind a recording is more significant and interesting than the recording itself. The debut album from X, Los Angeles ...

    Wow! Today marks the 17th year this blog was launched back in 2006 (hope the math is right?)! I try to post more frequently around each ...

    Boy, time sure flies by! My last post was from April (R.E.M.) and I think I posted something else the same day. Apparently, I violated B...

  (Image credit: Laura Levine/Corbis via Getty Images)   Earlier this week, was the 40th anniversary of Murmur , R.E.M.'s full-length de...

   Now for something completely different! I'm taking a brief break from Elliot Smith's early bands to post something I've been ...

   The fourth and final album (cassette) from Stranger Than Fiction before the band changed it's name. Another impressive collection of ...