I know I promised some reviews and I will still get to them. I have the new Suzanne Vega, Satellite Party, Worldwide Spies, and a couple others that I need to get to. By the weekend I swear...Elsewhere, its the 4th and I don't really have plans. In the past I have been fortunate enough to live in major metropolitan areas such as DC, St Paul/Minneapolis, St Louis, or Kansas City which has allowe...
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Posts by RD
July 4th
Tonight's Show
So my show is tonight on KUOI, the radio I work for. You can check it out at KUOI.org. Anyway, I was thinking about something fun to do and decided that the music tonight will be all covers...here's the tentative lineup (with the artist performing the tune, not the original artist):I Wanna Rock and Roll - Toad the Wet SprocketNever Ending Story Them - New Found GloryMe and Bobby McGee - Janis Jopl
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I was gone but now I'm back again
Ahh...back in the world of music. Stupid computer crashed but now its back on line. Thanks Bill.Anyway. Its been 3 monthes (+) since I posted but oh well.Got a position at the college radio station as Programming Director so I will attempt to effect change from within. Unfortunately the Music Director seems to be in direct opposition to my stated beliefs about music. Oh well. It will make for a go
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Radio Snobbery
So I have a radio show on the local college radio station. I also listen to the station on a regular basis when I am away from my computer (and sometimes when I am near it). I recently applied for the music director job because of something I noticed going on at the station. Apparently it has been going on for some time according to my older DJ brethren. Increasingly our Music Directors have be...
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Greatest American Album?
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So I was at the bar with a good friend of mine, and we got into a debate about the greatest American Album of all time. He holds that its "Midnight Radio" by Big Head Todd and the Monsters. While I agree with him that it is a great album, greatest American Album I don't know that I agree. His primary point was that several of his friends also would name this as the "greatest American Album". My co
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