I've always dreamed about finding an amazing Hammond Organ at a garage sale, for a discount price, and fixing it up nice and good.

But now, that dream is cast aside for the dream of finding a Hammond Novachord.

I saw this and thought, hey, it'd be cool to do that. But then I realized this guy is a professional analog synth restorer and modder ( Read more... )

I just happened to notice while reading the paper this morning that it's Geddy Lee's 55th birthday today. In his honor, I have listened to nothing but Rush all day. Check out my last.fm profile to see. I put the entire collection on shuffle play, so it's a good mix of stuff, and several songs I hadn't heard in a long time ("Superconductor"? ( Read more... )

I went to two concerts last month--my wife decided they were my Father's Day gift, even though I didn't go with the family. I was cool with that.
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I've picked up some new music recently.
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I bought quite a bit of music this year--not all of it new. I will try and write up some of my favorites from this year. These will not be your favorites. Some will be things that showed up on everyone's favorite lists.

The Shins - Wincing The Night Away - I was surprised by exactly how much I enjoyed this album. I know it's a critical ( Read more... )

Progressive-Rock Fans Are Terrible Trash-Talkers.

Some of you will not appreciate this. Some of you will all too much.

Just got back from seeing Rush at the PNC Bank Arts Center. What a great show. 3 hours of music, lots of the new album and many old tracks I hadn't heard before (Here's a link to the setlist if you're interested. They did the substitution mentioned on 7/4 tonight as well ( Read more... )

I've bought a lot of CDs in the past 2 months. A lot of bands I like have come out with new music, and I'm filling in some gaps in my collection. You can see what I've gotten recently at the blog that auto-updates every time I rip a CD into my Kuro Box for playback in SlimServer, and I've now hooked up my SlimServer with SlimScrobbler so you can ( Read more... )

March 27th saw the release of the Warren Zevon albums Excitable Boy, Stand In The Fire, and The Envoy. The latter two have never been on CD before, and all three have bonus tracks ( Read more... )

I figure, hey, I am proud to admit I like prog rock. I'm a white, nerdy American guy. It's my music. The problem with prog, is that despite the name "progressive", most of it was made in the 70s, and new bands making music in that style aren't really "progressive", they're stagnant. Now sure, some of it can be good music, but it's nostalgia, ( Read more... )