I think in conjuncture with my Jukebox Memoirs project I'm going to start doing a series of short, simple entries on music that pose a fun or interesting set of questions. Answers to said questions can be as short or as detailed as you'd like ( Read more... )

One of my favorite and truly most geeky music-related things to do is to create my own "best ofs" or "anthologies" or "hits" collections. The digital age and the CDR have made this incredibly easy. I began doing this right around the height of Napster, right at the same time I bought my first PC that had a CD burner ( Read more... )

Two of my LJ friends -- who, oddly enough, I know in person and who know each other in person -- were musing in recent entries on how long they have been doing this (LJ) and how many entries and/or long-time friends they have. Both made for short, interesting reads. I truly had never really thought to look at my user profile and see just how many ( Read more... )

On 'Record Store Day', as part of gathering interviews for my Jukebox Memoirs project, I got to talk to a 20 year-old kid (hey, I'm 37 and, yes, he's an adult but if you're 20 you're a "kid", sorry) about the music he loves, including the first albums he bought when he was young and the stuff he was buying that day. [Thank you, Sarie, for finding ( Read more... )

Consider this entry a full-on "call out", so much so that I am linking this entry at Facebook (hello FB friends!) and encouraging you to send the link for this entry to anyone you think might find it of interest ( Read more... )

This turned out to be pretty easy. I looked at my archives for April 2010 and I found an entire entry about the 'guilt' that came with finding a leak of the (then) forthcoming album from The Gaslight Anthem, American Slang.

It's tough in the digital age. Part of me always wants to honor the artists intention and not hear something until they ( Read more... )

I could come up with a lot of songs for this one but I'll just go with the first one that came to mind ( Read more... )

I need to remember this topic of Jukebox Memoirs. A song that makes you feel guilty... that's a bit dark, dont'cha think? Could conjure up a good story or two ( Read more... )

I think I established yesterday that it would be nice if I could play any song on an instrument. :)

But since now we're getting into specifics I think it would be pretty great if I knew how to play a guitar and could sing so that I could try this one out on friends or an open mic crowd.

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I was reminded this past weekend while doing an interview ( Read more... )

I've been dreading this one because...ummm... I can't.

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Seriously, I cannot play an instrument of any sort. At least not in any fashion that doesn't clear the room. I have actually spent the last several months assuming my son, Bailey, who is a largely self-taught guitarist (and quite good) and an entirely self-taught drummer must have got some ( Read more... )