What a fool was I to think that I could realistically pen a Friday Top 500 list in less than 24 hours. Sorry to get your hopes up, but you’re going to have to wait at least another week until I’m comfortable sharing such a huge project with you. Much like my oft-mentioned book (circa [...]

It’s been a very long time since I opened the Wordpress engine and randomly typed an entry without having an idea what I’m going to write. I consider this to be a good thing, because it means I’ve been adamant about posting high-quality blog entries and not simple little updates about the state of my [...]

The following recording was taken from WFMU’s Beware of The Blog, and I have no shame in posting the files here because I will be providing their blog with fresh content later today! I think that’s a fair trade-off, right? I blog for them, I can extract from their audio goldmine the occasional in-studio performance. [...]

My dear friends at Sony have once again gifted me with a fantastic piece of music history to enjoy and share with my audience. The deluxe 2DVD-1CD edition of Jeff Buckley: Grace Around The World arrived at my doorstep on Monday, and it could very well arrive at yours in the near future. I’m going [...]

From the venerable Kosmiche tome Cosmic Dreams At Play:
“Sperrmull’s only album has all the musical variety you’ll ever desire from an early 70s German album – the jolly mandolin tune on “Me And My Girlfriend”, Floydian effects on “No Freak Out”, Deep Purple-like guitar and organ lines on “Rising Up” and powerful solo [...]

Before posting the photos I just want to share an e-mail I got from Ian’s little sister Amanda. She writes, “Ava Jean Perillo was born in May with a rare optical disease known as Anophthalmia (to be born without eyes). We are joining together to raise money to cover the cost of upcoming surgeries for [...]

I’m pretty sure that even my longest-time readers will be hard pressed to remember this entry. One of the first record reviews ever published on this website was for the album Voila! Enough! by a group called Alterations. Three years have passed, and apparently the album is now out-of-print! Naturally, that makes it okay to [...]