April March – April March Meets Staplin
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...
Ramblings about My Records
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...
Light In The Attic is a label that I was really only familiar with because of their really excellent reissues of Betty Davis’s groundbreaking funk albums, which showed a real dedication to the music...
I guess one good Jenny Lewis deserves another, so here’s another – 2023’s “Joy’All.” I was uncharacteristically aware that this was coming out. Sometimes the algorithm gets it right. It may also have been...
As much as I’ve imposed my musical tastes on my kids through the years (what choice did they have?), sometimes it does come back in the other direction. One of their friends turned our...
Just to be clear, I hate the concept of Black Friday so much. Go get manipulated by massive corporations for the benefit of the capitaliz, but think you’ve somehow got one over on them...
I messed up the alphabetization again – and by doing that, I ended up learning something. In his book on George Clinton, mentioned last time I posted, Kris Needs finds some common ground between...
This 2018 release from Florence + The Machine really captured me – if not with quite the emotional impact of “How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful,” it was still super strong, very personal – big...
A couple of years back (2022, apparently!) I wrote that I was really hoping to get my hands on a vinyl edition of Florence + The Machine’s “How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful,” and...
Things We Said Today