Category Archives: Music

Breathing in Digital Dust

(Click here to visit Rotary Ten on Bandcamp.) So a few years ago, my old friend and bandmate Greg gave me a box of cassettes to sort through. Some of these were “official” releases by our old band, Rotary Ten, … Continue reading

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7 Songs

If summoned by glenn mcdonald to exercise a bit of gunpoint music crit, I really must comply. Plus, it’s got me subscribed to a couple more blogs of friends I didn’t know HAD blogs. The rules are as follows, the … Continue reading

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Top 11 2007

MOJO Presents: Sun is Shining I have always claimed to hate reggae music. The reasons are exactly what you’d imagine: 1) It “all sounds the same” and 2) jocks in college loved it, and most of those guys were jerks. … Continue reading

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2006 Top 10

Goner – “Jersey Roy / An Island’s Worth of Avenues” In October, Scott gave me an advance copy of the new Goner CD while we were in New York. Sitting in the airport on the way out of town, I … Continue reading

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2005 Top 10

The Fake Fictions at Cleary’s on Clark Probably the defining live moment for me in 2005 came towards the end, at this modestly-attended show in December. I’d spent a year performing very little, and watching the FFs fling their short … Continue reading

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