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Readers, you’ve had time to really digest all of our individual 2007 Top Ten lists, which now brings us to the RTP Average.
This weighted scale inputs all of our individual lists into a complex, mathematical algorithm, utilizing a series of functions and their additive inverses (I don’t want to get too technicial, but […]

I would like to begin this list by thanking all of my RTP.com bretheren for bringing many new bands to my attention. You are good and honest people–scholars in the first order. So high-fives, low-fives and kickups to all of you.
And now the list:
10. The New Pornographers - Challengers
Perhaps I’m a sucker for […]

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 […]

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.

NPR’s All Songs Considered is asking you, the casual and hard-core music non-expert to select the ALBUM OF THE YEAR.
You don’t need to be a snooty NPR listener like me, it’s open to anyone with musical taste–even bad musical taste.
Vote today. Select up to FIVE. If you don’t, just consider the reprocussions–Fountains of […]

As the first snow falls in America’s High Five state, black ice covers the roads, knuckles turn white and tailgating fucktards find their way into the ditch.
I drive past, laughing my way to the office, desperately trying to keep my road rage in check, with a “Ho-Ho-Ho,” and a “Hee-Hee-Hee,” and a “It’s […]

In every city, in every state in the United States of America the program director of a classic rock station is waking up from a self-induced coma–the result of mixing NyQuil, Bartel & James and Oxycotin. It’s not what he planned, just what the hooker brought with her.
As he searched for his tan pants, […]

The AP reports today that 62 percent of Radiohead fans did not pay for the download of In Rainbows, and the average the other 38 percent voluntarily paid was $6
RTP is shocked an appalled by the senseless act and we are doing everything in our power to give a shit. /sarcastic remark
Honestly, what […]

In the spirit of Halloween next week, Guitar Friday features the Teddybears, a band in bear suits, playing rock and roll guitar.
Granted “Punkrocker” doesn’t quite stand up well without Iggy Pop (what does), but really the guitar is the point here.

It’s spit-piss raining all over the US today, so we need someone who will save our lives. Ted Leo will save us all. He will save our lives.