Maximillian – Maximillian
When it time to clear this from my new acquisitions shelf, I realized that I hadn’t played it much, and thought that was at least in part because when I got it, my wife...
Ramblings about My Records
When it time to clear this from my new acquisitions shelf, I realized that I hadn’t played it much, and thought that was at least in part because when I got it, my wife...
That last April March acquisition, “In Cinerama,” left such an impression on me that when it was announced she would have a new release for Record Store Day 2023, there was no question in...
Oh, this vanity project. I’m trying to remember back to the time when I started it, and the thought that I would be able to move quickly through the several hundred records I had...
This is a brand new addition to my collection, just within the past few weeks – a gift from my record-store owning friend for some minor favors I did him. While I don’t have any...
Last time, when writing about Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets, I mentioned that Yep Roc Records was one of the only modern record labels I gave any credence to as a label. Well, Sundazed...
Since I picked up a pile of used Nick Lowe records in the early 1990s, the rest of my Lowe collection was by way of CD. And all of my Los Straitjackets albums have...
I live near Philly, and Philly has an amazing music scene, both local and touring – but because I live near yet not in Philly, I don’t get to shows as much as I...
Well, I’m surprised to find that somehow I haven’t yet written about Los Bitchos! I mentioned them in the last entry on Los Wembler’s de Iquitos and then found that I’ve never written them...
This is one of my weirder recent acquisitions, in terms of being outside my normal tastes. I knew exactly zero about cumbia music before discovering Los Bitchos, whose infectious cumbia-based instrumentals delight me –...
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