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Music After 40
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Keeping up with the latest in music and culture after hitting the big 4-0!
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My city was gone
Back in the 50s and 60s, Robert Moses was considered a powerful force of urban destruction. As head of public works for New York City, he had bulldozed blocks of tenements to make way for housing projects. He cut through the Grand Concourse section o...
What I don’t know about Jazz
It came to my attention again, recently, that I have a lot to learn about Jazz. I kinda know the basics, who the legends are, and what they played. But, until last week I didn’t know that Miles Davis started in Charlie Parker’s band. I...
Music appreciation with Andrew Loog Oldham
I became a Sirius subscriber in December 2005. Which means that I was one of the millions of people who made the leap because Howard Stern was coming in January 2006. I grew up in New York City and had been listening since the WNBC days, and I wanted...
The Slip - free but slow
It took almost an hour, but I was able to get the free download of the new Nine Inch Nails album - The Slip. I wanted the Bit Torrent version for Apple, which became a long process, taking two attempts to connect to get the files. I guess everyone...
Industrial roots…new NIN tour
I was really into the Chicago label WaxTrax and the whole industrial movement back in the early 90s. Pretty Hate Machine from Nine Inch Nails was a real breakthrough for industrial music, and still holds up as a great album. A lot of people were tur...
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