A Steady Diet of Sloan
To say I’m a fan of the Canadian rock band Sloan is an understatement. I’ve followed the band for over 30 years and like wine, the band...
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May 5, 20235 min read
Jazz Fest 2023
Last weekend, I was lucky enough to be in New Orleans for the 2023 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. It’s a music festival rich in...
Apr 6, 20232 min read
Covers Pt. 2
Every now and then, I hear cover songs that catch my ear - for the most part, it’s because it doesn’t sound exactly like the original....
Mar 6, 20232 min read
Women Rule
In 1987, after being petitioned by the National Women’s History Project, Congress passed Pub. L. 100-9 which designated the month of...
Mar 4, 20232 min read
Margo Price - 9:30 Club
Margo Price put on one hell of a show Thursday night at the sold out 9:30 Club. The evolution of Price’s music career was on full display...
Feb 13, 20232 min read
RIP Trugoy the Dove
David Jolicoeur (known as Trugoy the Dove) of De La Soul died on Sunday - he was 54 years old. The rap trio expanded the stylistic...
Jan 30, 20232 min read
Two Legends
Over the weekend, the music world lost two of its most influential figures - Tom Verlaine, the singer/guitarist who fronted the band...
Nov 22, 20223 min read
Thanksgiving
It’s that time again - time for family and friends to get together in whatever numbers and whatever style - that time to sit down and...
Nov 14, 20222 min read
In Concert - Soccer Mommy
Thanks to some sweepstakes winning tickets from WRNR, I spent Sunday night at the 9:30 Club with a few hundred people - It was my first...
Oct 9, 20222 min read
Thank You Billy
It's 11:45 pm on a Sunday night as I write this - I'm sitting at the desk of a hotel room in New York City as my son drifts off to sleep....
Oct 4, 20222 min read
Goodbye Loretta
Loretta Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner’s daughter whose frank songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachia pulled her out of poverty...
Aug 9, 20221 min read
Goodbye Lamont
Lamont Dozier, the middle name of the celebrated Holland-Dozier-Holland team that wrote and produced “You Can’t Hurry Love,” “Heat Wave”...
Jun 1, 20222 min read
Days of the Week
We all learned the song in pre-school, “Days of the Week” (sung to the tune of “The Addams Family” theme). Well this is the grown-up...
Jul 16, 20212 min read
Barry and I Created Summer Playlists
This space normally is reserved for New Music Friday and there's some great choices this week (John Mayer, Clairo and Pop Smoke just to...
Jun 22, 20212 min read
Feeling Blue in Guyville
There are not many albums that are widely agreed upon as classics. To have two of them released on the same date years apart is pretty...
Jun 14, 20212 min read
We Built This City
I got to thinking this past weekend, when I heard the song “Los Angeles” by HAIM about songs with cities in their title. Clearly, we...
May 6, 20211 min read
The Rain Mixtape
Rain – whatever your opinion on it – has made its presence felt in the DC area lately with more to pop up as we head into summer. So if...
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