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Just picked up one of those little Crosley turntables at Target. I have the turntable and the stereo in the living room, but there ain’t that much room in a NYC apartment. It’s got speakers and it closes up just like my mom’s old RCA and has a handle and everything. It’ll do for the occasional vinyl indulgence in my office.

On the turntable for its initial spin was the 45-only release of Greg Dulli’s tribute to Eddie Hinton. His cover of “Hard Luck Guy” is breathtaking. Dulli should get a Guggenheim to be able to work with horns for the rest of his career.

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When the band broke up, my first thought was “I’ll never get to see Matt Cameron play drums again” and, well, we know how that turned out. But there’s a difference between playing on that stuff and playing Soundgarden music. I snuck through Seattle alleys and darkened under-curfew streets to see Kim Thayil play live with Jello Biafra during the WTO riots. I flew to San Francisco to see Chris Cornell’s first solo gig at the Fillmore. I will believe it when I see it, but there is part of me that is just OVER THE MOON.

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The recent Sub Pop 20 festivities got me into a conversation with a friend about Kim Thayil.

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SUB POP WORLD DOMINATION FINALLY Read the whole post here.

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Writing about the Beatles is like writing about the sky or the sun or the moon – at least on my planet. It also appeared to be an impossible task, until I realized I had already done it without knowing I had. I was writing about George but really, everything I ever thought and felt [...]

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1. Light My Fire, the Doors This is quite possibly the most longest, pointless bridge in the history of rock and roll, just short of that plodding version of “Sweet Jane” on the Rock and Roll Animal album. I don’t know if it always bothered me (not that I was ever a Doors fan) but [...]

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#2: “School’s Out” – Alice Cooper #3: “Get It On (Bang A Gong)” – T. Rex I’ve been struggling over the past few weeks over these two entries, obsessing over my memory, trying to recall any significant detail – or rather, any detail at all – behind my discovery of these two songs that would [...]

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I wish I could remember the exact moment, pinpoint the moment between not knowing about rock and roll and suddenly being consumed by it. I remember living in Baltimore at age 4 and playing with my brother’s fire truck in the living room, and then my next memory is living in Michigan, headed for the [...]

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THE BACKGROUND: My good friend Alan is known for his party mixes. For his 40th birthday, the party favors weren’t a mug or a shot glass, but rather a carefully constructed cd mix that adhered to specific guidelines and rules. Let’s just say that a gauntlet was thrown down at that moment. I drove home [...]

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Uptown Lights aka… http://www.myspace.com/uptownlights … and I quote: “Armed with a setlist featuring the songs of their heroes, like O.V. Wright, Joe Tex, the Temptations, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding and many, many more, this show is not to be missed… ” If I could get on a plane, I would. Dulli singing Otis? Kill me [...]

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