• One needs to look no further than the name of this site to figure out that I am a huge The Band fan. I was late to the game (sort of), not learning about them until I first heard the live collection Rock Of Ages which was recorded at New York’s Acadamy Of Music on

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  • For those of us living in The States it is quite understandable if you’ve never heard of The Len Price 3.  The last time they played the U.S was 2007 when they were part of a Little Steven’s Underground Garage Tour.  To the best of my knowledge they were here in 2006 as well when

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  • Courtney Barnett & Stella Mozgowa present End Of The Day Live Back in July when Courtney Barnett announced that she would be releasing an instrumental score, End Of The Day to the 2021 documentary, Anonymous Club in September, I have to admit I viewed the news cautiously but still optimistic.  Then she announced that she

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  • Covering October

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  • It was back in May of 2017 when Frank Turner put on his first Lost Evenings Festival at the Roundhouse in London.  Four days and nights of a rolling cast of characters performing with Turner himself (and of course his fellow bandmates, The Sleeping Souls) a different set each evening.  Not all that surprising, it

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  • I’m not sure how I stumbled upon Jalen N’Gonda and his debut LP, the aptly titled Come Around And Love Me which was released a couple of weeks ago, but boy oh boy am I happy that I did.  To make discovering him when I did even better was the fact that he was going

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  • LIKE IT WAS YESTERDAY

    I remember a perfect September morning, cloudless sky, a ten out of ten…like it was yesterday Standing in my trading booth, reviewing the previous day’s trades and positions…like it was yesterday The lights and monitors flash…like it was yesterday The tape reports a small plane has flown into one of the twin towers…like it was

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  • September Smoove

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  • (2023-09-01) Quote Unquote Records Let me start with, as anyone who knows me, already knows I am a big fan of Jeff Rosenstock.  But even with that being said, I honestly had no idea how much I needed a new album from the man and his band until I saw last Thursday that in classic

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  • Charlie “Bird” Parker would have been 103 years old this year (08-29-2023) and the fine people behind The Charlie Parker Jazz Festival in conjunction with New York Summerstage and The City Parks Foundation have been honoring his legacy for the last 31 years by offering up The Charlie Parker Jazz Festival.  The festival is now

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