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The week of Memorial Day last year (the last Monday in May, for readers in other countries), I stepped on a scale to check my weight, and I didn’t like what it said- it briefly topped out at 250 before settling on 249 pounds (about 113 kg). I’m literally a smidge under six feet (1.83 […]
There’s nothing like the music industry’s customary lull at the beginning of the new year to send a guy into a state of writer’s block; there simply wasn’t anything worth writing about to me. It is showing signs of picking up, however, as there are a number of high-profile artists with new music on the […]
The decade of the 1920’s witnessed the dawning of the phenomenons we know today as consumer spending and popular culture; as the 2020’s decade is now upon us, it may go down to those who research it a hundred years from now as one of the decades during the Technology Age. Obviously, I wasn’t around […]
When I did the first article bearing this title at the end of last year, I basically dumped everything I had listened to but not reviewed into the article, so there were 17 reviews in total; this year, since I’ve done more articles this year, I’ve had the chance to (for the most part) include […]
This year, Thanksgiving Day will be a little bittersweet for me. In addition to being a day for giving thanks for all that we have and all that we are, it’s also the anniversary of the death of my only sibling, my sister Tasha. It hardly seems like it, but she’s been gone now twice […]
A colleague once asked me about the methods I use in determining what to review for this blog; I told them it’s very much the same way I’ve amassed a huge collection of music- just by listening to a lot of different stuff. A better question may be how I’ve ended up listening to some […]
My dad would’ve turned 90 years old this past week, and one of my fondest memories of him is how he helped shape my love for music. As a child, he showed me how to play records… how to stack 45’s on the spindle so they could drop down to be played… how to play […]
I’ve been writing about music, off and on, for somewhere in the neighborhood of 25 years, all out of love, and the desire to be another Nelson George. As this post is being published during the week of Labor Day, I remind myself again of why I continue to do it without any recognition or […]
After finding it to be a bit of a struggle to find anything to write about in the last post, I was the recipient of a minor deluge of interesting new music. For this post, I review the new Chance the Rapper album, as well as new music from Nigeria’s Burna Boy, a mixtape from […]
We’re halfway through the last year of the the 10’s, and I’m back from a short break that saw me celebrate my birthday, and take my first ever trip outside the country, visiting Mexico for a destination wedding. It appears I didn’t miss that much in the way of new music, but I do have […]
