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Sunday, February 28, 2021

Are Teenage Dreams So Hard To Beat?

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I was never legally old enough to enter the Gold Dollar when it was a functioning rock and roll club.  From my first visit on June 6th, 199...
Sunday, January 31, 2021

"We Can Try For a Boy...Or We Can Just Have the Shaggs"

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  The Shaggs Philosophy of the World scum stats: probably 500 or 1000 pressed originally, an infinitesimal amount of which remains in existe...
Thursday, December 31, 2020

Why Cassettes are the New 45s - OR - Using the Discogs Blog As A Bully Pulpit to Talk About the Cassettes I Desperately Need and Will Pay Unseemly Amounts of Cash For

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(I wrote this a few years back for the Discogs blog celebrating Cassette Store Day and realized that I hadn't shared here yet, looking b...
Monday, November 30, 2020

Insane Michigan Record Auction From 1987...

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As much as I've spent my life loving history and collecting records...I find so very little documentation of the history OF collecting r...
Saturday, October 31, 2020

Alice Coltrane Early Years

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I think the first time I heard Alice Coltrane went to Cass Tech was about 2005. A friend had told me the high school still has the harp that...
Wednesday, September 30, 2020

I Had No Idea What I Was Doing: Tales of Rock and Roll Archiving in the Digital Age

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  Last year I had the privilege of speaking at Albion College's Schleg Memorial Lecture. I put on a collared shirt, tried not to swear ...
Monday, August 31, 2020

The Stooges Live at Goose Lake

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I've spoken more about this record more than ANY OTHER RECORD we've ever released. Even White Stripes records that have been out for...
Friday, July 31, 2020

I’m On Some Dumb T-shirt Shit

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Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Walking

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So the one-year-old woke up at the crack of 6:15, ready to start shit while the rest of the fam was peacefully slumbering. My wife spoke ...
Sunday, May 31, 2020

The White Stripes Live at Dionysus September 16th, 2000

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We left Cincinnati later than we should have. A visit to Shake-It Records looms large in my memory and we definitely rolled straight to the...
Thursday, April 30, 2020

Every Thought I Have Ever Had About the Melvins' "Lysol" Album

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Writing late at night feels like the first time in forever, but with the Discogs livestream DJ set tomorrow, I need to be fully focuse...
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