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  • Cheesecake Cover of the Week: Barooga Bandit, ‘Come Softly’

      Artist: Barooga Bandit Title: Come Softly Year: 1979 Label: Capitol Cover Artist/Designer/Photographer: Thomas Weschler (photographer), Debbie Maczko Onderko (layout/graphics)   Read more about the band’s connection to U2 and that cover’s connection with Bob Seger here. For more great sleeves, visit the Cheesecake Album Cover Gallery.

  • Deep Cuts: Highway Songs

    You might not be looking for the working writers’ highway, but I bet you are looking for one nonetheless.

  • Hipgnosis Cover of the Week: Pink Floyd, ‘A Saucerful of Secrets’

    Artist: Pink Floyd Title: A Saucerful of Secrets Year: 1968 Label: Columbia For more great sleeves, visit the The Hipgnosis Album Cover Gallery.

  • Quick Directions To Working Writers’ Highway

    A young man recently asked me for writing advice. The request came via email,

  • From The Stacks: Tomita, ‘The Bermuda Triangle’ (Colored Vinyl)

    This was not my first Tomita record. That dubious honor belongs to his electronic interpretation of Holst’s Planets, which I spun often as a teenager.

  • From The Stacks: Jeremy Storch, ‘From A Naked Window’

    Jeremy Storch is a man in need of a memoir. Behind the Music has nothing on this guy’s story.

  • Cheesecake Cover of the Week: Billy Strange, ‘Folk Rock Hits’

      Artist: Billy Strange Title: Folk Rock Hits: The Big Sound of Billy Strange and His Guitar Year: 1965 Label: GNP/Crescendo Cover Artist/Designer/Photographer: Peter Whorf Graphics   For more great sleeves, visit the Cheesecake Album Cover Gallery.

  • Deep Cuts: Measuring Songs

    Measuring most things is easy.

  • The Mutable Measure of Writing Success

    One half of a lifetime ago, I walked into a Los Angeles bookstore.

  • From The Stacks: National Lampoon, ‘That’s Not Funny, That’s Sick!’ (Picture Disc)

    National Lampoon was the humor magazine for kids who aged out of Mad Magazine much in the way that Heavy Metal was the next logical step after Marvel and DC comics.

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