Confessions of a Fanboy

Crack reporters M.Sahm and S.Rod — okay, I’m pretty sure only Sahm does crack and he’s the only one I actually corresponded with — have reported in from Lollpalooza in Chicago.  Radiohead has been witnessed- from the 4th row.
On the off chance the Magic Junk team actually does write something up on this I’ll not [...]

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We’ve heard some of the hipsters take the piss out of Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails’ new distribution models.  It reminds me of days spent schlepping videos to the masses, working my way through college.  You want to know what caused more headaches than anything else on that job?  Well, besides the customers?  It wasn’t [...]

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The Hell’s Angels have this saying that three people can keep a secret if two of them are dead. So, why am I about to share a secret on the internet? Because I’m a Fanboy and I have to write about something, and TheWifeToWhomI’mMarried has largely accepted the depths of my stupidity and musical [...]

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Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!
After a week of obsessive Counting Crows listening, I moved on to R.E.M., Radiohead, and The Byrds. I even mixed in some Semisonic yesterday and introduced TheWifeToWhomI’mMarried to the cool that is The Raconteurs’ “Consolers of the Lonely.” I thought I was [...]

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I wasn’t sure if I was going to legally download the Radiohead album when it was made available last winter. I knew I wanted the music, but I wasn’t sure about the download. I hate downloaded music.
I guess it has everything to do with the way I’ve listened to music my whole life. [...]

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Yesterday’s R.E.M. obsession was briefly supplanted by an afternoon with The Byrds. It’s been totally obliterated today by a Radiohead obsession. How do I know? I have the same rash I did in college. The most commonly heard phrase of every recent college graduate: “I went through a Radiohead phase in [...]

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I don’t know if that headline will cause more of you to read this post or run away screaming. Good friends of the site M.Sahm and S.Rod, the creative geniuses behind Magic Junk Radio, have offered up their own remixes of the latest Radiohead single “Nude” and they need your support.
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Tom, I’m blaming you for this!
I bought my first Nine Inch Nails record yesterday. I’ve never been a fan, mostly because Trent Reznor’s voice was a bit much for me and I really couldn’t connect with most of the lyrics. I was thought the music sounded cool but I couldn’t get past the [...]

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I trust I can rely on your vote…
I had forgotten about this gem. I’d just listened to “Hit The City” for the sixth or seventh time and was looking for something to listen to. I decided on my random Radiohead playlist, which by the way hasn’t been very random because it’s rolled off [...]

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I’m once again pleased to report there were a lot of outstanding records released this past year. You wouldn’t know that if you read certain magazines, blogs or web sites. You certainly wouldn’t know it if you listened to most radio stations. Fortunately for you, you’re smarter than that and you’re not [...]

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