music

  • Withdrawal

    This is the longest my guitar and I have been separated from each other since we came into each other’s lives in 2002. And typing that, I just realized I’ve had it for six years now, that I’ve been playing (and teaching myself) for that long. It was a tough decision to put it in

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  • Last week, my colleagues and I were discussing what we thought were the 1990s “perfect albums.” Our lists had few similarities, but one of two consistent nods to the decade’s most influential releases. For the record, a “perfect album” is a cohesively original set (or successfully produced unified collection) of songs that, ultimately, tended to

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  • Clever Xcel: More here.

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  • Last night I went to the Alanis/Matchbox concert. The show was really good and I was eager to see both of them as it was my first time at one of their shows. Alanis came out and did a lot of her big hits, mostly culling songs from her first album. She sang a few

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  • This week I am rocking out all day long to this Mark Ronson CD I just bought. Okay, I didn’t buy the CD; I downloaded it from iTunes. Is that still what we say? Let’s say I bought an album. Too, let’s not argue over semantics. Let’s just have a nice time together. Anyway, the

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  • I’m popping back in real quick to mention this song that has been haunting me this week… The animation’s kind of saccharine, but the song….is something different.

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