Confessions of a Fanboy

Just what I needed:  a reminder that A) I haven’t written my review of Oasis’ Dig Out Your Soul and B) why I love Noel Gallagher.
Gallagher is already talking about the next Oasis record, believe it or not.  He says he’s started writing some material for it that he likens to mid-period Kinks.  He’s also [...]

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While writing my Dave Carter review, I was struck by what a great year 2008 has been for music. I was stunned as I started listing albums that have been released this year that I’ve obsessed over at one point or another and we still have 71 days left.

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And sometimes that’s a good thing.  I got some belated birthday gifts this week, and they are good ones.  I’ll be listening to them and writing about them in the coming days.

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This is radio nowhere, folks.  Sorry to have gone radio silent.  It’s an odd week for that to have happened with so much good music in my hands right now.  I haven’t gotten to talk about the new Dylan release and I haven’t been able to fully express my love of the new Oasis record.  [...]

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Oasis’ new album Dig Out Your Soul hits stores tomorrow, and my super deluxe box edition should be arriving shortly.  I told myself I would be patient, but that’s out the window.  I started listening to my advance of the first single “The Shock of The Lightning” this morning and have barely been able to listen [...]

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The Birthday edition of the B-Sides Concept Album program. Tonight we discuss the passing of Pink Floyd’s Richard Wright, new releases from David Gilmour and Metallica, Oasis and Noel Gallagher, and R.E.M.’s most recent show from Germany.
Be sure to join us at 10 PM EDT, 9 PM CDT.

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This is almost too much to hope for.  Noel Gallagher may finally make the solo album he’s at different times threatened and avoided making.
Gallagher told Blender he would like the four principle members of the band (himself, brother Liam, Gem Archer, and Andy Bell) to work on individual projects after the release and tour for [...]

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Was there ever any doubt I was going to buy the box set, deluxe edition of Oasis’ upcoming album Dig Out Your Soul?  No, I didn’t think so either.
In case you missed it on the B-Sides Concept Album last week, Oasis is releasing their new studio album Oct. 7.  It will come as a standard [...]

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Welcome my friends to the show that never ends!
I took a couple weeks off due to some personal matters and a short vacation, but I’m pleased to be bringing the weekly music roundtable that is The B-Sides Concept Album back to the airwaves.

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Despite having claimed to not know how to send text messages or e-mail, Oasis’ Noel Gallagher is maintaining something of a road journal on Oasis’ web site as the band kicks off their tour for the upcoming Dig Out Your Soul LP. In his latest entry, Noel says he and his co-horts have once [...]

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