I am unable to attend tomorrow night's February CD Mix of the Month Club, since I'll be in Utah at my grandfather's memorial service. But I'm sending my mix, Tenor of the Times, along to the meeting in my absence. The disc
In which Bill, as threatened, pays tribute to late jazz great Michael Brecker. A special all-music edition!
So, the discussion about my 100 best '90s albums list was interesting enough that I decided to give the current decade the same treatment. It's a somewhat different exercise, though, because the recent years really haven't had as much time to sink in yet. Strangely,
A few weeks back, for no reason but avoiding work, I assembled a list of the 100 best albums of the '90s. Okay, maybe not the best, but my favorites anyway, the ones that I seem to have listened to most obsessively over the years. In an effort to
My main contribution to today's CD Mix of the Month Club for January, which returns to The Magician on the Lower East Side, is Four Letter Words, with Scenes in the Country added as a slightly tardy Martin Luther King Day bonus mix. The Magician is the bar
How is it possible that I have only just now discovered the indispensable Steely Dan Dictionary?
From a Times article about the new Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: The members of Van Halen to be inducted are the brothers Alex and Eddie Van Halen; the bassist Michael Anthony; and David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar, who have replaced one another as the band'
For the December meeting of the New York CD Mix of the Month club, I believe I mentioned that we had a karaoke outing at iBop on 35th Street. I believe I also mentioned that surreptitious video of me attempting Janet Jackson's "Nasty" was taken by
I love Christmas music, but "The Twelve Days of Christmas" can be pretty tedious to listen to. Especially so as an instrumental number, where each verse gets that much more repetitive than the previous one. Something you might want to think about.
I did in fact make it out to the December convocation of the CD Mix of the Month Club, which was held at IBop Karaoke on 35th Street. A good time seemed to be had by all that made it, and I nurture secret hopes that Alan will post that
Had I been able to attend last night's meeting, my contribution to the November CD Mix of the Month Club would have been Dreams of Escape. Sigh.
The dreaded Soundtrack Shuffle Meme, via Tim Pratt. IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE? 1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc) 2. Put it on shuffle 3. Press play 4. For every question, type the song that's playing 5. When
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