The NFL playoffs have been going on over the last couple of weeks, and I have been watching intently. As one would expect, there have been plenty of advertisements for the upcoming Super Bowl too. Of course, one of the highlights of any Super Bowl is the halftime show, and there has been no shortage …
The other day I came across a video of the band Audioslave doing what looked like a live in-studio performance from the early 2000s. Though the band was mostly on point, Chris Cornell, the lead singer of the group, seemed to be a little bit off. Certainly there are any number of reasons why that …
Until I had an opportunity to work on some multi-track tapes for Songs For Beginners, the debut solo album by Graham Nash, I was not familiar with any of his solo work. We only had a handful of songs from the album, but I really got into what I heard. One song on the record …
One of the most frustrating ticket buying experiences I’ve ever had was with a company called AXS. My friend Justin and I wanted to get tickets to see Puscifer play the Ace Hotel in Los Angeles back in 2010. We both tried to get tickets as soon as they went on sale, but the AXS …
The flagship Borders bookstore used to be in the same town where I went to college. It was a massive two-level complex, with half of the upstairs being a full-blown record shop and the downstairs containing one of the first coffee shops I ever remember seeing in a bookstore. During my last year of school, …
When you use an analog tape machine, you need to make various adjustments to achieve proper playback. This is typically done with project tones, a series of tones recorded to tape that can be played back on any machine so that the levels can be adjusted to the same settings as the original machine that …
I was chatting with my buddy Carlos a few months ago about the site, and he asked me if I had gotten to the band Earth, Wind & Fire. It was funny that he had asked about them, because I had just done some work on their self-titled album about a month prior, so they …
I looked for the Savoy Brown album Looking In for about three or four years before I ended up finding it. While back in Michigan visiting family, my uncle wanted me to go through a couple of crates of records I had stored at his house and clear them out of his basement. After pulling …
The only AC/DC record my dad had when I was a kid was Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, but I was familiar with some of their other songs from the radio. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap was a fun record to play as a 10- or 11-year-old kid because, not only were there some killer …
My buddy Red Ryan introduced me to Hunter S. Thompson by way of the movie Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas while we were in college. It’s a movie that still remains a favorite of mine to this day, highlighted by unforgettable performances by Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro. As an added bonus, there’s …