It took me eight months of having this here website before I mentioned Mary Lucia, which may not seem significant. But you gotta remember that was back in 2001 and, well, I don’t know Mary…
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The Egotistical Music Lover Or Here’s My New Favorite Song
Some of my most enjoyable music experiences as a teenager was sitting on the floor in front of my KMart stereo, notebook in lap, pen in hand, one finger on the pause button of the…
Top Five Side One, Track Ones: A Teenage Kicks Tribute List
This morning on Teenage Kicks, Jacquie Fuller played two hours of side one, track ones in honor of The Current’s upcoming “High Fidelity” showing at The Fitz. It was, as you can imagine, totally awesome,…
Top 25 Most Listened to Songs of 2014 (Or Music to Revise a Novel to)
The obvious story of this year’s list is Lydia Loveless. Of course. If this shocks anyone clearly you are the kind of reader who skips every single post I make where I yammer about rock…
The Perils of Being a Freakishly Tall Music Fan
The first concert I ever paid my own money to attend was Bell Biv DeVoe (now ya know) at the Met Center in (I think) the spring/summer of 1991. A longtime New Edition fan, I…
Look! I Learned a New Trick or Discovering I Like Albums (do we still call them albums?)
Last night at Rock & Roll Bookclub we started talking about my future book release party and how there’d be a band there. Of course. “Or maybe a jukebox,” BFK said, getting carried away with…