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Vampire Weekend, Vampire Weekend, 2008 on XL Recordings.

Debut album from Vampire Weekend, including Oxford Comma and Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa. How could I not love a band with grooves like this and references to punctuation?…

Various Artists, Ruby Trax: The NME’s Roaring Forty, 1992 on New Musical Express.

This was a 3xLP box set issued to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the New Musical Express – which ran in print from 1952 to 2018 when it…

The Blues Project, Live at the Cafe Au Go Go, 1966 on Verve Folkways

Credited on the cover as “featuring Tommy Flanders,” who had left the group by the time it was released. My copy is a 1966 mono version which I…

Blossom Dearie, Blossom Dearie. 1957 on Verve.

The inimitable Blossom Dearie’s debut album. My copy is the 2022 reissue from Vinyl Me, Please, which includes listening notes by Natalie Weiner. Ray Brown, Jo Jones, and…

Monday, October 17th, 2022 – Moment of Zen

Moment of Zen

Thursday, July 29th, 2021

I don’t think that’s what white rice looks like.

Saturday, May 25th, 2019 – Boston Calling Day Two

Anderson .Paak and the Free Nationals Dessa

I am the Moss King

I am the Moss King

Storms ahead

Storms ahead

Nice statues in the lobby

Nice statues in the lobby

Saturday, October 13th, 2018

One fish, two fish / red fish, swedish fish

One fish, two fish / red fish, swedish fish

Is this some weird conceptual Magritte joke?

Is this some weird conceptual Magritte joke?

Wolfe Spirit

Wolfe Spirit

Daft Labeouf

Forget Angry Birds, Get Spaceward Ho!

Spaceward Ho! was one of my all-time favorite games on the Mac in the 1990s – and now it has been released for the iPad!

Tiny Desk Concert – The Decemberists

Fourth of July Music – Gil Scott-Heron Live at the Bottom Line

Gil Scott-Heron (1949-2011) is most well known for “The Revolution Will Not be Televised” but this 1977 live gig with Brian Jackson will expose you to more of…

Think I can take Watson?

Screen shown just before taking the Jeopardy online test a few weeks back. I thought about trying to screen-shot some of the actual test questions but then that…