On the Radio: Caribou
A few weeks back I had to get up earlier than early to take my mother to the airport. It was another typically fast and emotional visit. As I have intimated before, my mother and I don’t always seem to...
View ArticleSpring Sunday Morning: A Quick One
It’s too bad Ray wasn’t from Maine originally because then I could say he was our greatest musical export ever. Granted, there a few other really good bands to come out of my beloved home state, but...
View ArticleSounds and Silence: Listening (Alone)
My brother recently posted about many of the advantages of playing music on a record player instead of one of the many other forms available. Among those he listed that you have probably heard before...
View ArticleWritten Elsewhere: An interview with Sigur Ros’ drummer ahead of the band’s...
theelderj:Check out this interview with a drummer from one of the most unique bands in music today (Sigur Ros). I haven’t talked enough about how much I like this band, but maybe now I’ll get around to...
View ArticleWu Tang’s “Enter the Wu Tang: 36 Chambers” is 20!
Something we missed over the weekend, the seminal album Enter the Wu Tang: 36 Chambers was released on November 9th, 1993. This not only means that this album has been influencing artists and fans for...
View ArticleBlissfully ignorant: Enjoying Music You Don’t Understand
I like music I can’t understand better? Over the past few years I have found myself, at first against my will, listening to music in languages I did not understand, mostly Spanish. Over time I started...
View ArticleOn The Radio (Flashback): Big Head Todd and the Monsters
Mmmmm. Music. So, the other day I was walking from my office past one of our departmental secretaries when I reached into the candy bowl on her desk and withdrew a little dark chocolate. As I walked...
View ArticleAddicted to Flapper Birds and the breakdown of human communication
I discovered I could play the iPhone game Flappy Bird on my laptop at the precise time I heard this song on the Palladia channel from that awesome show Live from Daryl’s House. I have always loved...
View ArticleOn the Radio (Flashback): Time Bomb
In the mid 1990s I used to work about 45 minutes away from home at a gas station–much to the chagrin of my parents who couldn’t understand why the hell I had to drive 45 minutes to pump gas when there...
View ArticleMath Tests
I have been in a high speed wobble between parent teacher conferences, kids in crisis, new animals and a pretty important test this Saturday. This time, I think I got it because it’s English, but it is...
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