Archive > January 2009

One time, I met Bobby Brown…

I was just thinking about this the other day. Its true, I met Bobby Brown at the height of his popularity in the early 90s…I was in 1st grade.
My Dad somehow scored tickets to the Boston Music Awards. He did this because I, being 6 or 7 at the time, LOVED New Kids on the [...]

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What happens when you’re up all night watching VH1

VH1 stands for Video Hits First. If they weren’t such a recognized network, I’d suggest they ditch that name since it only hold true between 3am and 6am. But this isn’t going to be another rant about how music networks don’t show music videos anymore and are totally dominated by unimaginative, uninspired reality shows that [...]

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Vinyl, Digital, and Radiohead and Coldplay ruling the world

http://blogs.laweekly.com/play/news/neilson-soundscan-2008-sales-f/
Really interesting article. Vinyl sales up 89%. People buying G ‘n’ R and Metallica on vinyl contributing to that? Weird. Records arent just for hipsters apparently.
Here are some charts from the article, but I recommend you actually read it and let me know your thoughts.

These are kind of hard to see do to their small [...]

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The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me

My boyfriend just discovered this record today, which prompted me to listen to it. It is one of my favorite albums of all time, but it invokes such emotion from me, I cant listen to it all the time.
Brand New has come such a long way from Your Favorite Weapon, and though I enjoy their [...]

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Obviously I’ve been feeling nostalgic

As if my last post about the 90s wasn’t enough, Thursday night I went to see Reel Big Fish at the House of Blues. Now, it was a free show for me since I have a friend that is a bartender there, but nonetheless, I probably would have paid to see what I ended up [...]

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