I’m a child of the Eighties. Duran Duran and Madonna are my music, or at least the start of what might mark that. Yet, somehow, starting last Fall, I got on a big disco kick. Turns out, I’m a fan of Earth, Wind, and Fire. Comment from one of the versions of this song I [...]

One of my favorite musicians, Dave Carter, passed away ten years ago. One of the best lyricists, I had this hunch that the next album he would release, the right movie using one of his songs, or the right cover, would bring him to the popular conscious. Sadly, he passed away before any of this [...]

I tweeked the sig on my iPad to read “Message sent via a bottle thrown into the ocean. It seems I’m not alone in being alone.” This is inspired by the Police’s “Message in a Bottle.” I’m a fan of the Coverville podcast. Brian Ibott, the host, does a great job of presenting interesting takes [...]

I was watching Letterman the other night, when Jessica Lea Mayfield performed. I was quite captivated by her performance.

Sad to say one that I seem to get exposed to music mostly through TV commercials. Still, Family of the Year is pretty cool.

Confession: in middle school, I liked Duran Duran. OK, perhaps that is a more shameful thing for a guy to say in high school in the mid-eighties, but there you have it. Of course, they didn’t make things easier. While their first three albums were pretty good, he slide to pretension was swift aft that. [...]

I always associated Joe Jackson with light pop. In part, it was from my first exposure to him being “Stepping Out,” and”Is She Really Going Out With Him;” in part due to this being tied, in my head, to Donald Fagen’s “The Nightfly,” released about the same time with the same feel. However, a recent [...]

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