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When I was little, before my parents bought the family CD player, my sister and I used to listen to our parent’s vinyl records to pass the time. It wasn’t uncommon to walk in our house and hear The Commodores, the Grease soundtrack, Michael Jackson’s “Off The Wall” or, when our dad cared enough to [...]

My earliest memory of hearing the Ramones was when I was in junior high watching an episode of “Space: Above and Beyond” (back when it was on the air for the one season) and the space fighter pilots were listening to “Blitzkrieg Bop”. The rest of the episode was long forgotten because I searched the [...]

Bob Seger is the guy most people consider a one-hit wonder because of his song “Like A Rock,” which was heavily used in Ford commercials for some time. Bob Seger’s songs conjure up memories of watching my dad tinker around in the garage, while he listened to Bob’s Greatest Hits CD. The song “Turn The [...]

Nothing like a bunch of hippies dancing and grooving in the middle of a field. This is “Soul Singing” from The Black Crowes:

On Tuesday, AFI released their third full-length major label album, “Crash Love”. I’m a huge AFI fan. I’ve seen them live 7 times. I’ve met the band and have shaken their hands. I own three copies of “Sing The Sorrow” (1 regular CD, 1 limited edition release and 1 copy of the album on vinyl. [...]

Image by Getty Images via Daylife The guys of Linkin Park have been blowing fans away and performing in sold out venues for close to a decade now. Chester Bennington decided to step back from the LP mic just long enough to put together a side project that, quite frankly, I’m pretty damned excited about. [...]

Kings of Leon is one of the best quasi-new bands to make it big in the past year or two. I say quasi-new because while their latest album “Only By The Night” is the one that put them on the charts, they have three previous albums which are just as good. Some argue they’re far [...]

Last week I a friend of mine gifted me with my very own copy of Metallica’s latest endeavor, “Death Magnetic”. After listening to it a few times I posted a message on Twitter saying, “Just listened to ‘Death Magnetic’ — Waiting for a GOOD post-year-2000 Metallica album to come out will be ‘The Day That [...]

I’m going to take a page out of my buddy Jase’s book, here. He’s recently been doing, what I call, update posts to fill in his readers on what forms of entertainment have been occupying his time. I think it’s fun to read about what other people are into and so I thought I’d perpetuate his idea. Below are the things I’m into this week.

On a day that had temperatures in the high-80s, in the early evening hours, it was pretty freaking miserable. That’s when I went across town to sit in on a rehearsal for a native Santa Rosa band, The Beguiled. Practicing in a space the size of a medium walk-in closet, myself and the six members [...]