Category Archives: Music

“Do your parents know you’re Ramones?”

I went looking for Tomax, and as I walked up she greeted me with “I got to meet Riff Randall!!” Continue reading

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So I finally wrote my own OKCupid test

Are you sure you didn’t invent bluegrass? Oh, wait—you DID. Continue reading

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At home tonight

If I were to rip every LP I have to CD, that would be . . . six hundred CDs, or thereabout. Continue reading

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The past stands in the present

Nobody was hassling him, nobody was fawning on him or pestering him—it was just a moment of “hey, that’s Roky Erickson right over there.” Continue reading

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Now THAT makes it interesting!

Wild.  T has a German guitar.  Well, so do I. Continue reading

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You can’t do it with a straight face

“A Mighty Wind” nails the phenomenon of resurrecting long-gone groups from the Great Folk Scare of the early 1960s. Continue reading

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Hiding under the chair

How many other guitarists can you name who would even try to play guitar transcriptions of Scott Joplin piano solos? Continue reading

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CD case inserts and stir-fry

You know them? The nice picture-ish inserts on the front and back of jewel cases that sometimes even tell you which tracks are on the CD inside and in what order? Continue reading

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The Graceland exegesis

I knew again that Paul Simon was right, and he’d written two or three of the most perfect lines in all of American pop music. Continue reading

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How to blow a musician’s mind

You never know who you’ll meet working pledge phones. Continue reading

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