Category Archives: Music

All things related to music: reviews, concerts, birthdays, etc.

Cool time machine on the #1 tunes

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Steve

Today’s first cool story courtesy of The Onion‘s AV Club is a link to this bitchin’ site that has sound clips of what were the hits during particular years. It starts from 1940 and runs up to the present. I … Continue reading →

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RIP Adam “MCA” Yauch

Posted on May 5, 2012 by Steve

I hate to jump on the bandwagon because I personally could never get into the Beastie Boys’ material, namely…all of it. And please, don’t waste any electrons on trying to convince me I need to give Paul’s Boutique a chance. I … Continue reading →

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RIP Pete Fornatale

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Steve

I had never heard of the guy neither but I recognize his contributions to what some may call the golden age of FM. To me Pete would be the anti-Lee Abrams despite his show being similar to the navel-gazing ego … Continue reading →

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Garbage at Record Store Day

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Steve

This year’s Record Store Day was the coolest ever. In past years, I tend to show up in the afternoon because I’m usually working or had other plans. When Waterloo Records stated that Garbage would be there for autographs and … Continue reading →

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RIP Dick Clark and Greg Ham

Posted on April 22, 2012 by Steve

This year’s annual Record Store Day had to kick with sad news via the loss of several people who made significant contributions to Pop/Rock music. I can only relate to two of them. I know the significance of The Band, … Continue reading →

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Wanda Jackson

Posted on April 14, 2012 by Steve

Before Southern Culture on the Skids hit the stage, they had two opening acts: Rosie Flores and Wanda Jackson. The latter you may have heard of. Last year she released an album produced by the prolific Jack White. I thought … Continue reading →

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RIP: Jim Marshall

Posted on April 5, 2012 by Steve

Without this man, Rock n’ Roll and the other genres it paved the way for wouldn’t have been as loud or as awesome. I know I’ve lost some of my hearing courtesy of Mr. Marshall’s stacks but it was worth … Continue reading →

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Happy 30th Anniversary Waterloo Records

Posted on April 1, 2012 by Steve

In era when all you hear about is the bad news for the music industry, namely stores that sell CDs, Waterloo Records proves there will be a future with smaller, specialized places. You could say they’re the Alamo Drafthouse of … Continue reading →

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Why the RIAA, SOPA and Hollywood get an F in math

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Steve

Mr. Reid does an excellent job on taking these crooks and cronies to task on their fuzzy math…no, let’s just call them outright lies. The same lies they told in the Eighties about blank tapes and the VCR; the same … Continue reading →

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The Cult

Posted on March 18, 2012 by Steve

I know what you’re thinking, it’s “These guys are still around?” Pretty much, the Cult was making a big push at SXSW for their upcoming album Choice of Weapon due in May. My friend Chip from Waterloo Records asked me … Continue reading →

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Happy 80th Birthday Johnny Cash

Posted on February 26, 2012 by Steve

In honor of the Man in Black, Mental Notes posted the story behind his hit “A Boy Named Sue,” which I recall hearing occasionally on WMAQ; if it wasn’t WGN, Dad would have this Chicago-based Country station on when he … Continue reading →

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Really? These are the stupidest album titles?

Posted on February 19, 2012 by Steve

The so-called experts at the Chicago Tribune (aka the Illinois GOP’s apology machine) need to take a few lessons about music in general from the Guardian before they spit out another list. This weak attempt at the stupidest album titles … Continue reading →

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Mental Floss story on Van Halen’s rider

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Steve

During my semester with Stardate in Milwaukee, I only got to see pieces of riders for a couple shows…I think Billy Squier’s regarding what to feed the roadies (nothing interesting) and The Motels in the company’s archives. The owner (Randy) … Continue reading →

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Bitchin’ free App for my iPad, Band of the Day

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Steve

A must-have app for my fellow music aficionados who have iPads or at least an iPhone. Not sure if they make this for other platforms, wisely, I think they should for Android and Kindle Fire. What about those who don’t … Continue reading →

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KMAG exceeds 10,000 songs!

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Steve

I was hoping to hit this goal by New Year’s but having a good time/relaxing was my number one priority between December 23 and January 2 this year. It is a rather trivial accomplishment yet to get to this point, … Continue reading →

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