Guitar players love to talk about guitars and accessories nearly as much as they love to play. In the new documentary Cry Baby: The Pedal That Rocks the World talk they do about the Cry Baby pedal, otherwise known as the “wah wah.” It’s a fantastic doc about the intersection of creativity and technology in [...]
As the annual Record Store Day celebration gets closer (April 17th!) the interwebs are buzzing with news of special vinyl releases from old and new (and occasionally dead) artists. Most are limited editions that will likely sell out quickly. These are some of the ones we’ll be looking for: Bruce Springsteen: 10″ live with versions [...]
So the big music news of the day seems to be- it wasn’t Warren Beatty or Mick Jagger afterall! Supposedly it turns out that Carly Simon’s Your So Vain was about David Geffen. Rolling Stone sleuths out the story, but I don’t think the facts are quite that conclusive. As far as this from the [...]
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Backstreets, the Bruce Springsteen fan magazine, is encouraging fans to donate $25 to the Community FoodBank of New Jersey, which will then enter you into a contest to win an original Springteen print from one of fourteen noted photographers. Together with “Photographers Against Hunger,” we’re encouraging fans of Bruce Springsteen to donate $25 to the [...]
Had lots of fun visiting Vintage Vinyl in Fords NJ yesterday for Record Store Day. They had live music, including The Color Fred & Willie Nile. Nice size crowd (of all ages!) turned out. Pat was on a camping trip with our kids but I met up with my friend Mike, a Vintage Vinyl veteran, [...]
Record Store Day is April 18, 2009. We recorded a special (non)episode to remind our listeners to patronize their local record stores! And we got a little silly doing it. Twitter shout out! Head over to the Record Store Day site for more information and a list of participating retailers!
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Turns out there are vinyl records in the President’s basement too! When Barack Obama moved into the White House on January 20th, he gained access to five chefs, a private bowling alley — and a killer collection of classic LPs. Stored in the basement of the executive mansion is the official White House Record Library: [...]
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