Last night, spur of the moment, I decided to ask my parents to write down on a piece of paper, when they got a few minutes, four albums they really enjoyed growing up/before I was born. I wanted to get a sense of what they liked back in the day...a solid connection with them. Here's what they came up with ( Read more... )

i'VE BEEN HAVING A REALLY ANTISOCIAL MONTH ( Read more... )

When you look up to find that you're surrounded by empty package envelopes and shipment slips, you know it's time to cool your Ebay obsessed heels...yeah. I've been exclusively shopping online for the past couple weeks instead of the usual record store/book store shopping trips I take periodically and I've gotta say, it's kind of nice ( Read more... )

No one can deny that in recent years the vinyl record has been seeing something of a revival. If you're a music lover in general, you've probably noticed it, those kids groping around in the small new vinyl sections at your local "record" stores, or the bigger used sections in local mom and pop music shacks ( Read more... )

I really have been going into supersonic overdrive with my consumption of music for the past few weeks...something like ten new albums and at least seven new records...a few 45s and at least 1 music DVD...it's becoming a problem.

A delightful problem!!

Tonight I'm having a little vinyl party with wall_flower9 in which I plan to exhaust myself with how much ( Read more... )

well, I don't think so, but I'm gonna take a look around...Joni Mitchell on a lazy Sunday morning, with an entire day of no working! What a grand idea. I think I'm gonna dedicate this morning/early afternoon to records and reading. My own version of "r & r" if you will ( Read more... )