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...
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...
Okay, not every purchase is a good purchase, even if it’s from the dollar bin, even if it’s likely my dealer just tossed it in with whatever else I was buying that day. I...
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...
My love affair with contemporary music, with keeping up with the latest releases, lasted for a fairly short time in my life – from when I got my first clock-radio in 1972 to about...
Back in 2012, Lake Street Dive put out an EP of cover songs called “Fun Machine.” Ten years later, they went somewhat longer and made a full album of cover songs, which I bought...
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