Confessions of a Fanboy

I did it. I ordered a proper copy of Peter Karp’s Shadows and Cracks album tonight.
The copy I have at present was provided to me by a contact at Blind Pig, for which I am now deeply in her debt. Well, I’m $16.98 in debt to Amazon. Anyway, the advance copy I […]

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More news from the world of my iPod!
We already covered where I started this morning: Deftones, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Zwan. The day got a little more varied as things went along: Radiohead, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, and then I set one of my ’90s playlists on random and a lot […]

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Let’s hope I do a more thorough job with the “7 Days of Satriani” than I did with “Garbage Week and a Couple of Days.
Joe Satriani’s landmark Surfing With the Alien is turning 20 this year and to mark the occasion, a 20th Anniversary Edition of the record is being released August 8. I’m […]

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I wish I got into all that psychobabble and analysis and shit because I’d be curious what it says when you begin your day with Deftones.
I woke up this morning in the mood for some big guitars, yet I don’t feel all that angst-y. Still, for some reason I needed to hear “Digital Bath” […]

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I don’t know why LTAMi has been MIA for so long (that’s two abbreviations), but it’s time to bring it back ASAP (cool, three).
Today’s installment finds us revisiting the works of Brendan Benson, Peter Karp, Jimmy Burns, and some old favorites in the form of Garbage, Foo Fighters, Satriani, and Muddy Waters.

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The degree to which I am loving Peter Karp’s Shadows and Cracks, which I received from a contact at his label, Blind Pig, reminded me of another album I received from a contact this year. I got a copy of Jimmy Burns’ Live at B.L.U.E.S. from Delmark a few months ago, hadn’t listened to […]

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It’s time now for a special edition of “Let’s Talk About My iPod” in honor of our extended edition of Garbage Week.
What I’ve done is take the Top 20 Most Played Garb age songs from my iPod rather than try to somehow compile a random number of my favorite Garbage tracks in some sort of […]

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Massive amounts of guitar-generated goodness for your Monday afternoon!
A former co-worker tried passing on the power of BTS to me when he lent me his copy of this album. I locked in to one track, “Carry The Zero,” and never investigated much beyond that. When You In Reverse was released to rave reviews, […]

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Rather than doing what needed to be done, I spent a good portion of the weekend watching House on DVD with my wife. Many have written on the outstanding use of music by David Chase in The Sopranos, and it is a tool other shows have tried to make use of. House is […]

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Garbage week got a bit rained on last week. It was going to be such a great idea and it really never got off the ground — not completely, anyway – which is why we’re going to extend it into this week. Garbage Week… Continued.

Let’s pick up where we left off last week […]

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