Ramblings about My Records
Some garage rock compilations are more special than others. In a sense, garage rock records are the definition of limited edition – but this one is actually numbered! This was a Record Store Day pickup...
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...
My loving wife gave me a great biography for my birthday – “George Clinton and the Cosmic Odyssey of the P-Funk Empire,” by Kris Needs. Great because it answers the question Shawn (owner of...
Immediately after getting back on the Sue Foley bandwagon with Pinky’s Blues in 2023, I picked up “The Ice Queen,” a rather acclaimed release from 2018. I mean, she’s just so good. It’s an...
So way back in the day, there was a record/CD store called Records N Such in Stuyvesant Plaza – a local chain that had quite an eclectic selection, an entire separate classical listening room,...
Honestly, I don’t get too excited about Record Store Day – I’m not a fan of created scarcity and the commercial push to go to a certain place on a certain day or completely...
This was the album that gave me an absolutely stunning introduction to Aimee Mann. I knew her name from years before with ‘Til Tuesday, and had probably heard about her previous release, “I’m With...
This is truly one of the most important albums in my life. I’m sure I picked it up in those early days of my record-collecting, when any oldie was a good oldie (almost), and...
Here’s the last of my Lake Street Dive records – and I think the last of the catch-up records. As I have tried to go through my record collection alphabetically, I decided to stop...
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