Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year. In fact, I think I like it better than Christmas. It’s a perfect combination of wonderful things. I have a ton of things to be thankful for and they all seem to come together on Thanksgiving. From my annual “night out” […]

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I can’t stop listening to this song. It’s the Strokes from “Top of the Pops”. Equation Boy/Man took me to see The Strokes a year or so back at the Aragon Ballroom. I bet they played this one.

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Someone, somewhere once wrote/said that The Band played Mavin Gaye’s “Don’t Do it” like it was their own. There are a few songs that a group or artist plays so well and so convincingly that it somehow/someway becomes “their” song.
This is one example.
Although some will squabble with this, for me, below […]

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This morning on the drive into the city, Natalie and I were tuned into WXRT (as usual) and we listened to the movie review by the “Regular Guy”. This week, he covered the movie Lucky You, which he said had a stellar cast, but was a below average film. They don’t have it […]

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Sad news via Greg Kots blog: Mavis Staples is performing to support her new record with folks including guitarist-producer Ry Cooder, drummer Jim Keltner and a few others, but she won’t be making a stop in her hometown of Chicago. Too bad for us, eh?
For a primer on Mavis, check her […]

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Unfortunately, I rarely get to sit down and listen to an entire record all the way through these days. I have an expansive collection, but it’s largely gathering dust because I just simply don’t have the time. For my birthday, my buddy Matt gave me some iTunes bucks and I went trolling for […]

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