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Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Remembering Gordy Newton...

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I only ever met Gordy once. As I remember it, I popped-in unannounced at Brian Muldoon's upholstery shop one afternoon probably 2003 o...
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Sunday, March 31, 2019

Nashville After Ten Years...

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People ask me all the damn time about the difference between Detroit and Nashville and I feel like I've got my rote, patter down on this...
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Thursday, February 28, 2019

An Overview of Recent eBay Losses...

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1) Monthly Detroit Magazine - never had seen this before, thought it was crazy even bidding up to $67, am terribly curious as to who woul...
Thursday, January 31, 2019

Exciting Things to Come in 2019

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Monday, December 31, 2018

Too Much Info About MC5 “Kick Out The Jams” 45rpm Pressing Variations

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MC5 Kick Out the Jams" b/w "Motor City's Burning" scum stats: I'd bet Elektra pressed 100k of these back i...
Friday, November 30, 2018

Spaced "Flying Thru the Sky" b/w "Ain't That The Way It Is, Babe"

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Spaced “Flying Thru the Sky” b/w “Ain’t That the Way It Is, Babe” scum stats: shit. i can reasonably account for four copies of this ...
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Wednesday, October 31, 2018

400 Pounds of Punk: The Lost "He Once Ate a Small Child" Cassette

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400 Pounds of Punk He Once Ate a Small Child scum stats: if there are more than twenty of these out there, I'd be shocked. I'd b...
Sunday, September 30, 2018

Why I Hate Discogs - OR - Stop Making Me Want Records I Didn't Previously Know Existed

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This was originally for the Discogs blog, hence the prominent deprecation of the brand. I’ve got enough I’m searching out already. I’ve g...
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Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Lost and Found Playlist...

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The kind folks at the Detroit Institute of Arts asked me if I could provide a soundtrack to their current Lost and Found exhibit, highlight...
Tuesday, July 31, 2018

The Future of Vinyl Discussion with Anthony Fantano...58 Excruciating Minutes of It

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Seems like Fantano "The Internet's Busiest Music Nerd" has a bit of a following. Also seems like I need to figure out whethe...
Saturday, June 30, 2018

My Recommendations from 20 Years Ago Are Still Rock Solid...

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Junior year of high school, Spring of 1998, a classmate named Al told me that he'd found a record store that sold local music. In one...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2018

How A Letter From A Failing Independant Record Label Buoyed The Self-Esteem of a Clueless 15-year-old Virgin and Set Him on a Path of Vinyl Righteousness...

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Pulled this one out of the basement recently and was shocked at how responsive, thoughtful and courteous the entire conversation was. Whe...
Monday, April 30, 2018

The Dirtbombs Live, University of Toronto radio, July 31st, 1997

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A garage rock time capsule to say the least. Unheard since 1997, please relish in a time in the not-too-distant past where I was actually...
Saturday, March 31, 2018

The Beauty of La Vice and Company's "Two Sisters From Bagdad"

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La Vice and Company  happily upload to YouTube if it happens. La Vice and Company  Two Sisters from Bagdad Jazzman reissue, li...
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Wednesday, February 28, 2018

15 Years Later I Can Reveal...Ben Blackwell is Nick Zinner

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     Just shy of 15 years ago, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs did a quick West Coast tour opening for the White Stripes. Towards the end of the tr...
Monday, January 01, 2018

How Michigan is the Fifth Member of the Stooges – OR – A Cultural Cycling Through Three-Hundred Years of Bullshit Historical Anecdotes and Arbitrary Facts to Argue that Geographic Demarcation Can Be Personified as a the Embodiment of a Musician

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Regardless of my job, I was asked to write an essay for the "Total Chaos" book with the suggested topic of "How Detroit Was ...