Todd Rundgren is an artist that has grown on me quite a bit through the years. I had been aware of him for a long time, but I didn’t really know his music outside of a couple of songs. This is another case, however, where work was able to fill in some musical gaps for …
Having loved the movie Ghostbusters, I was excited as hell when Ghostbusters II came out. I remember going to see it in the theater with my dad, and the movie did not disappoint. For as much as I enjoyed the first one, I thought the second one was even better. While the movie has plenty …
Trestan, a former intern and current coworker of mine, let me borrow a book a few years called Are We Still Rolling? by Phill Brown, a longtime audio engineer from the U.K. In it, Brown chronicles his career working with various artists through the years, Robert Palmer being one of them. I was familiar with …
Back in August, my uncle accompanied me back to California after I took a road trip out to Michigan. The last night he was here we ended up having dinner with some friends of mine at a restaurant in Pasadena. While sitting outside and enjoying a nice summer sunset and conversation, my ear couldn’t help …
I rented my first apartment when I started my third year of college. It was in a light brown, Victorian style house, complete with turret, that had been converted into about four or five apartments, bordering the southwestern edge of Central Campus. Around Christmas, I bought myself an all-in-one Koss DVD player with 5.1 surround …
I started dating a girl named Alex towards the end of my first year of college. Her grandfather owned an old, uninhabited farmhouse located in the thumb of Michigan, a city called Port Austin if I recall correctly. One summer, Alex and I decided to take a trip out there for a long weekend. En …
I’m currently reading a book called The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein. It’s about free market economic policy, more specifically the policies advocated by Milton Friedman of the University of Chicago, the conditions under which several countries throughout the world have attempted to implement it, and the various outcomes that resulted. There’s a lot of …
One of my favorite venues of all-time is this small jazz club in Studio City, CA called The Baked Potato. And when I say “small,” I mean small. This place probably holds less than a hundred people, making the experience akin to watching a full band play in your living room. You’ll typically see studio …
Until maybe the late ’80s or early ’90s, I could probably count on one hand the number of songs I heard with curse words in them. Of course, as rare as it was to hear cursing on a record, it was even rarer to hear it on the radio. For a long time, however, there …
Since this site’s inception, I have been consciously trying to not repeat artists yet. For me, that even meant not using songs performed by solo artists who were previously in bands I already named a song from. The more I thought about it, however, the more I softened on this guideline. I mean, if studio …