Friday, November 18, 2022

My Sloan Story: How I Became Besotted

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So I keep trying to get back to this to tell my weird little story, and I keep getting interrupted. This working-for-a-living thing is prett...
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Sunday, October 23, 2022

Some Chills Down the Spine: A Review of Sloan’s Steady

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In the coming days, I’ll be unspooling the strange journey I’ve been on for the last two-ish years, but today I want to unpack the most rece...
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Friday, October 21, 2022

Steve Simels: Many Happy Returns!

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Today, we bid a very happy birthday to this blog's backbone, the man who kept the fires aglow and the posts a'coming, my friend and ...
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Thursday, October 20, 2022

I'm Back! / Bandcrush: Sloan

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Well, hello, strangers! It's been a good bit since I've stomped on these home grounds, and a ton of stuff has happened. I wrote a bo...
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Friday, August 26, 2022

Literary Notes From All Over

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From 1964 in The New Yorker , please enjoy Nat Hentoff 's brilliant profile of Bob Dylan as he was recording his fourth album. You know...
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Thursday, August 25, 2022

See the USA in Your Chevrolet

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From nobody knows exactly when, please enjoy the funniest rock-and-roll photograph of all time... ...and then from 1977, dig the greatest ...
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Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Records I'd Forgotten Existed, Let Alone Loved: An Occasional Feature (Special "Schmucks in White Satin" Edition)

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From 1966, please enjoy the original version of The Moody Blues , with the great Denny Laine , and their glorious almost hit single "St...
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Monday, August 22, 2022

Records I'd Forgotten Existed, Let Alone Loved: An Occasional Feature (Special "More Cow Bell" Edition)

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From 1987(!) and his sophomore studio album Lord of the Highway , please enjoy the incomparable Joe Ely and his killer ode to public rowdin...
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Friday, August 19, 2022

Records I'd Forgotten Existed, Let Alone Loved: An Occasional Feature (Special "50s Ballad Pastiche" Edition)

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From 2014, please enjoy everybody's favorite pop tart Lydia Loveless and her spine-tingingly gorgeous cover of "They Don't Kno...
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Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Cerrado Para el Negocio de los Monos (Closed for Monkey Business)

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Regular posting/music resumes on the morrow.