Archive for 2008/07


Heart Full Of Soul

The Wikipedia says that "Heart Full Of Soul" made it to number 9 on the chart, but I don’t remember ever hearing it on New York radio. Then again, it was released on June 9th, and shortly thereafter I went to camp. No, upon reflection, I didn’t go to Camp Laurelwood until August. How come […]

Press Releases

Don’t send ’em. Unless you’re a publicly traded corporate behemoth like Live Nation or you’re an old wave band, owned by the media, that has no idea who its fans are. I just delete ’em. I wonder what makes you send them. Especially to me. Do I ever do hype? Never. But you keep sending […]

Justine

I’m not going to tell you exactly how I got these files. The Internet is a collaborative effort, and someone in the ether reached out and told me how to download complete classic albums. Well, maybe not classic when it comes to those calcified, putrefied terrestrial radio stations playing "Stairway To Heaven" and "Free Bird", […]

Richard Berman

Once upon a time radio was a wonderland at the end of the rabbit hole. It wasn’t canned lines in between homogenous music and endless ads but an embryonic journey that was an end unto itself. To stay home and listen to the radio all night was a reasonable activity, and this was decades after […]