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Cheesecake Cover of the Week: ’20 Great Stars Perform 20 Great Hits of the 60’s’

By James Stafford on January 21, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Lessons Learned From a $100 Turntable

By James Stafford on January 18, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Cheesecake Cover of the Week: ‘Members Only’

By James Stafford on January 14, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

You Need To Write That Great Story

By James Stafford on January 11, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Cheesecake Cover of the Week: The Three Suns, ‘Warm and Tender’

By James Stafford on January 7, 2021 • ( 2 Comments )

Who Dares To Tackle the Push-Up Challenge?

By James Stafford on December 31, 2020 • ( 4 Comments )

On My Turntable: A Different Kind Of Truth

By James Stafford on February 13, 2012 • ( 6 Comments )

 I picked up Van Halen’s latest album, their reunion with front man David Lee Roth, for the same reasons that I Facebook friended the hot girl from my high school.  I hoped […]

64. I Started Drifting To A Different Place

By James Stafford on February 13, 2012 • ( 8 Comments )

Valley Girl opened the same weekend as The Hunger.  I didn’t have any interest in seeing it.  As far as I was concerned the film makers were morally destitute thieves who ripped […]

Help Stripmall Architecture, Score Some Cool Stuff

By James Stafford on February 9, 2012 • ( 4 Comments )

Stripmall Architecture is working on a new album, Lowbrow in the Evening, and they’re opening up the vaults and cupboards to make you a part of it. This is a truly great […]

From the Stacks: Mr. T’s Commandment

By James Stafford on February 8, 2012 • ( 4 Comments )

Don’t be a fool.  You can trust me. I have a mohawk and twenty pounds of gold chains.  My tube socks don’t match.  Stay in school, don’t do drugs.  Now get in […]

63. The Alton Ellis Incident

By James Stafford on February 6, 2012 • ( 6 Comments )

Misfits come in all shapes and sizes, at least Alton Ellis did.  He was 6’4″ easy, though his clothes were 5’8″.  He had a huge pimply nose in the middle of a […]

Don Cornelius: 1936-2012

By James Stafford on February 1, 2012 • ( 8 Comments )

Don Cornelius, creator and host of Soul Train, appears to have killed himself at age 75.  Gunshot to the head, ugly way to go.  I’ll be interested to learn over the next […]

From the Stacks: The Leaning Tower Of Bowie

By James Stafford on January 31, 2012 • ( 10 Comments )

…or an obsession viewed in the sunlight.

62. Turn and Face the Strange

By James Stafford on January 30, 2012 • ( 17 Comments )

David Bowie ended the 1970s in April 1983 — drove a stake through their Angel Flight hearts like some sort of dance friendly Van Helsing.  Let’s Dance wasn’t Bowie’s first album in […]

Deep Cuts: Queen’s Dragon Attack

By James Stafford on January 25, 2012 • ( 3 Comments )

The intergooglewebtubes tell me that this is the Chinese Year of the Dragon.  I have no idea what that means, but it sounds a lot more fun than Dick Clark’s New Years […]

61. Bewitched

By James Stafford on January 23, 2012 • ( 4 Comments )

I arrived early for my first day of work.  My new manager issued me a stained tee-shirt and a bright orange pair of pedophile football coach shorts that were three sizes too […]

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Cheesecake Cover of the Week: ’20 Great Stars Perform 20 Great Hits of the 60’s’

Cheesecake Cover of the Week: ‘Members Only’

Cheesecake Cover of the Week: The Three Suns, ‘Warm and Tender’

From the Stacks »

From The Stacks: The Mamas and the Papas, ‘The Papas and the Mamas’

From The Stacks: ‘David Bowie Narrates Prokofiev’s Peter And The Wolf’ (Green Vinyl)

From The Stacks: Queen Cassette Singles

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Cheesecake Cover of the Week: Bernadette Peters, ‘Now Playing’

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Cartoon Saturday: George Garabedian, ‘Tijuana Christmas, Volume Two’

Cheesecake Cover of the Week: Chet Atkins, ‘The Most Popular Guitar’

Hipgnosis Cover of the Week: Wishbone Ash, ‘No Smoke Without Fire’

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Deep Cuts: Songs For Habits

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Deep Cuts: Songs For Sickness

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