I Wrote The News Today, O'Boy

Cassette Culture

Cassette Culture

A little something silly for a Thursday…Anyone for a Cassette Culture belt buckle?

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Hot Off The Press

Lee “Scratch” Perry – Sound System Scratch

Lee “Scratch” Perry – Sound System Scratch

Anyone with a passing interest in reggae has heard of Lee Perry also known as ‘Scratch’...


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If I Were Robert Christgau

Tom Petty’s Mojo

Tom Petty’s Mojo

(Revised 8.17.10) Wherein Mr. Petty reconvenes his Heartbreakers for a stab at another...


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Three Best Songs

The Three Best Los Lobos Songs

The Three Best Los Lobos Songs

[Funny. This was originally posted about a year ago. The situation is almost the same a year later. The company that made the purchased moved us into a new building; I moved my family back to our old house. So, a year later everything is still in disarray. Hmmm...there's no straightening-up life, I guess. F45,  September...

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B-Sides In The Buff

The Monkees: (I’m Not Your) Stepping Stone

The Monkees: (I’m Not Your) Stepping Stone

Written by the hit machine of Boyce and Hart and recorded in Studio 1 at Hollywood’s...


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Sal's Boutique

Delbert And Glen – Subject To Change

Delbert And Glen – Subject To Change

Delbert McClinton cut his chops in the late 1950’s as a guitarist and harp player...


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Best Albums Of The Double Zero Decade

Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend

Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend

Paste Magazine Albums of the Decade #21 It’s a story we’ve grown quite familiar with in this first decade of the 21st century. You know, the one about the rich kids from upper Manhattan harboring aspirations of slumming it on the Lower East Side like the art ghetto legends they read about growing up. But...

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The Decemberists – The Crane Wife

The Decemberists – The Crane Wife

Paste Magazine’s Albums of the Decade #22 As great as the Decemberists‘ 2005 Picaresque is, the band’s real creative breakthrough came a year earlier, on the 18-minute single The Tain, which integrated Colin Meloy’s hyper-literate whimsy into an ambitious yet tuneful song-suite. On the second...

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