Weather permitting, my once-beloved Milwaukee Brewers will open the baseball season against the Cubs at Wrigley Field in Chicago on Monday afternoon.
Baseball — at least the major leagues — used to be a big deal for me. I wrote about that last year. It’s much less so these days.
I still like to play it. I’ve [...]
If you’re a regular visitor to these parts, you know we occasionally stop by Ray’s Corner.
It’s the apartment with the loud music, and the place where the martinis are made of gin with the vermouth bottle held about a foot away.
Dad and I were in the car for a couple of hours on Easter Sunday, [...]
Every so often, another request drops into the e-mail: “Would you listen to our music and give us a mention on AM, Then FM?”
They come because AM, Then FM is listed with The Hype Machine, one of the big mp3 aggregators. All too often, though, the folks making the request see only that we’re a [...]
I wrote a while back about needing some sunny pop goodness. When I picked the tunes for that post, I went with some more familiar ones.
Any of the tunes off “Movin’ Up,” the 1983 debut album by the Elvis Brothers, would have been worthy as well. That’s tonight’s selection over at our other blog, The [...]
Today was not my day at the used record store.
I fingered a couple thousand records, looking for something interesting. I found nothing.
The closest thing to interesting was a huge soundtrack collection that had come into the store since the last time I was there.
I saw, and thought about, the soundtrack to “Light of Day,” with [...]
