You know when your friend starts talking about a band you’ve never heard of, and you immediately dismiss them because your genre of choice comes from a time period past? “Sorry, I’m just a 90s/80s/Classic Rock/Bell Biv Devoe kinda guy/gal…I’ll...
Continue Reading2013: Year of the Tunepocalypse, Part 1
Hey, end of year lists are fun and what not, but if I don’t provide music recommendations throughout the year, there’s really no credibility to my word, right? Plus, I’m going to overplay all this stuff like wild in the...
Continue ReadingThe Top Albums of 2012
I listened to more new music in 2012 than I did in any other year in my life to date. It has turned into some sort of obsession for me over the past couple of years to listen to loads...
Continue ReadingTweets in Movie Ads? Oh. Okay.
The production teams behind movie advertising on TV have made a huge mistake. For my entire life (and I’m assuming yours, if you’re human), I have never paid even the slightest attention to the critics’ names underneath quotes in movie...
Continue ReadingMy Top 60 Songs of 2012
295. That’s how many songs came out in 2012 that I enjoyed listening to. That’s gross. But I’m not here to lay out my top 295 tracks of the year (though you’re more than welcome to check them out), I’m...
Continue ReadingThe Best Music of 2012 So Far – Oh, There You Are, Peter!
I was starting to get worried. One of my goals of the year is to listen to even more new music than I did last year (where I estimate I listened to over 100 albums that came out in 2011...
Continue ReadingSocializing with Shamarr Allen at Jazz Fest
Shamarr Allen told me to meet him on Frenchman Street. He told Brendan and Bobby to meet him there, too, and even though he told us all separately, we found ourselves arriving at the same time. Mike and Courtney came...
Continue ReadingMusic You Should[n’t] Be Listening to: February 2012 Edition
It took me a little while to get into some new music this year, but I finally have some solid early 2012 recommendations (and some hangover 2011 ones). But first, let me tell you about the worst song I have...
Continue ReadingI Guess Bud Light Supports Drunk Driving
I really wasn’t going to do a Superbowl commercial post unless I was blown away by an ad (and I wasn’t really impressed with any of them this year). Monday morning, though, I was blown away when I found out...
Continue ReadingAlbum of the Week: Margolnick – Taylorsville
Just by chance, I caught a tweet from the band The Civil Wars the other night, saying people should check out a song on the album “Taylorsville” by Margolnick (click that link right there to stream the album – it’s...
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