Last Friday I went to see Crystal Fighters with absolutely no expectations. To be honest, I only knew one of their songs, it was an acoustic version and I had heard it so many times that I was completely sick of it. I didn’t have any good reason for going to the show. First two […]

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As promised, Bobby Short Loves Cole Porter. Now, I know other standards singers. I had never heard of Bobby Short and I guess I should feel silly for not? I mean, he was on The Love Boat! I vaguely recall LOVING that show as a kid. Again though, that show was a choice of my […]

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Welcome to those that might be joining us here over at hoboindie from the twitterverse. I have recently joined up with the gang at Vinyl Me, Please. Story of how this came about? A word on a tweet caught my eye, “turntable.” You might know I’m a site mod for turntable.fm, so seeing turntable in […]

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(disclaimer, kind of a rant/vent) I’ve been in the car a total of two hours in the past two days. That’s a lot for me. Ever since my 20 year-old Jeep rusted out from under me and my mechanic put his arm around me and said, no more, have I been using Zipcar. (Ok, you […]

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Ages ago, well, in January, I asked members of Holus-Bolus to listen to The Joy Formidable’s new album Wolf’s Law and give me 5 word reviews or reviews in gif form. Here they are: Dave P – I love female guitarists a lot. (yeah, that’s 6 words) Henje R – Whirring one hit wonder band. (he had […]

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I was told that I should give Atoms For Peace a chance(ha!ha?). I was told that Amok was an awesome headphone album and well, I love those. I was also told that Thom Yorke didn’t sing much on it. My eyes narrowed at that assertion. If you’ve read the previous post, you’ll know I can’t […]

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I did what I do. I stuck my hand in and pulled out…….. Conway Twitty, The High Priest Of Country Music. Um, mom? Past couple of times I’ve said, “can’t do this, not today,” and picked again. I am not going to do that this time. But to gear up, I’m making more coffee and […]

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Some people love them, some people hate them. I am of the category of LOVE THEM. There are artists out there that I can’t stand, Radiohead probably being the most well-known. Check the room rules in Indie While You Work, discussing Radiohead with me MIGHT, just might get you booted. I’m that serious. It’s not […]

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  The winter blahs are official. Gone are the cabin fever days and now I’ve quite nicely settled into the hermit/shut-in/hibernation phase. Wake me in April. Somehow I managed to organize a group of friends into going to a show last night. It started about a week ago. We were discussing how we, my show-buddies […]

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Once again I stuck my hand into the section of my LP’s that belonged to my mom and what did I pull out??? The soundtrack to The Wizard of Oz. Just couldn’t do it. A second dip in nets us The Manhattan Transfer! I remember growing up both of my parents loving them. I have […]

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