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  • Deep Cuts: Football Songs

    I might not be much of a football fan, but there’s always music. But digging through my digital stacks to put together a football playlist turned out to be one of my biggest “Deep Cuts” challenges to date. Maybe I have more football songs on vinyl, but the pickings were slim among my CDs. And…

  • Confessions Of An Apathetic Football Fan

    What follows is an accounting of nearly 50 years of football fandom, if it can be called that.

  • From The Stacks: ‘Here Come…The City Folk’

    My Saturday routine revolves around record stores.

  • Deep Cuts: Songs For Letters

    Is the letter a lost art? The obvious answer is yes; after all, when was the last time you wrote or received a letter? E-mails don’t carry the same weight, and tweets and text messages are more disposable than fast food wrappers. The strongly worded letter has been wiped out by Yelp, social media, and…

  • Dope Live at Sacramento’s Ace of Spades, 10/3/2017

    Sacramento has always been a good town for shows, but it just keeps getting better.

  • Dear The End of the World

      September 24, 2017   Dear The End of the World, How are you? I’m fine, no thanks to you.

  • From The Stacks: Bobby Helms, ‘My Special Album’

    Bobby Helms is responsible for one of the most tenacious and widespread earworms the world has ever suffered.

  • Deep Cuts: Airplane Songs

    I’m writing this in advance of the Reno Air Races because: A) I don’t know whether I’ll have time to put this together while attending the races, and B) Who knows? Maybe

  • 2017 Reno Air Races

    Life isn’t all music and true tales of liquor, lust, and primer gray Camaros, you know.

  • From The Stacks: Jethro Tull, ‘My God!’

    This is a great bootleg of a band that deserves more modern praise than they receive.

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