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Here it is: my first “Best Of” posting of the holiday season. Before I get into my list, a bit of background and a few caveats:
1. I will be the first to admit my musical tastes are somewhat primitive. I grew up in the days of The Clash and punk rock. Lyrics — and the […]

Let’s spare everyone the preamble and get right into it shall we? Here are my top ten records of 2007, along with my best guess at my current favorite track on each. Thanks in advance for sincerely caring, or not caring at all but lying to me.

10 - Feist, The Reminder

Favorite Track: “I Feel It […]

More great albums from established artists in my top 10 this year than “new” bands. Guess it means we need better albums from new bands. I’m talking to you The Sun’s Harmful Rays and Bandstraction…
My 10 favorite albums of 2007:
10 Explosions In the Sky - All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone
09 White Rabbits […]

Last night, for the annual office Christmas party, the owner of my agency invited everyone and their families out to a performance of The Nutcracker by the Grand Rapids Ballet Company.
There were no guitars playing last night and it made me sad, damn near to tears. But I overcame my meloncholy because halfway through […]

Vampire Weekend: the preppiest band I’ve ever seen. As fellow RTPers will tell you, this album has been in heavy rotation in a lot of our rock libraries. I like the album, but it’s not my favorite of the year (more on that later this week…) and after seeing them live I’m convinced they’ll make […]

(And the prize for hackiest post title goes to…)
The Big Led Zeppelin reunion show/Ahmet Ertegun tribute thing was last night.
Imagine my surprise when I heard they had covered my old ring tone…

I know, it’s a bunch of old dudes (even wee Jason Bonham is 42) playing hits from before I was born. But I love […]

These guys are always ‘In Something.’ According to Billboard via MacDailyNews, Radiohead are currently chatting with the iTunes peeps about something or other. Here are some quotes from some guy:
“Radiohead’s camp is in talks with [Apple’s] iTunes Music Store for the release of ‘In Rainbows…remains a notable omission from the world’s leading download store because […]

I do not believe this has any affiliation with the actual person Andrew Bird, but I do believe it to be amusing.
Enjoy.

Pretty impressive, but I guess when you have so much free time to practice, we should expect nothing less.
This is 1,500 plus inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center in the Philippines making Michael Jackson proud.

Happy Festival of Lights. As the funny man says, there’s not many Chanukah songs beyond the dradle song, and even fewer that include guitar. Good thing Sandler can tear it up.