Ben Zimmerman’s ‘The Baltika Years’

I just love coming across new and exciting things. Why just yesterday I came across a garlic press that doubles as a watch and defibrillator. And last week I came across a pen with an eraser on the end of it. Can you believe it?? Erasable ink?? We are living in futuristic times, people. We […]

Good Weekend

Okay, I’m beat. It was a jam-packed weekend of record store visits, car rides to the big city, good food, incredible live music, and swanky hotel room living. I’ll tell you the short version as I’m tired and ready to sleep for 12 hours. This was Record Store Day weekend. There wasn’t a bunch of […]

Record Store Day Returns

Just like clockwork, April did indeed follow March this year and that means we’re already a quarter the way through 2015. It’s hard to believe. MLK Day, Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, Easter Sunday….we hardly knew ye. That means that the one holiday every vinyl guy and gal drools over is quickly approaching: Record Store […]

Spring Breaks

So this is the first spring break I’ve taken the entire week off. Where did we go, you ask? Well let’s see, we went to the grocery store, the public library, the record shop, and the…oh, you mean like “Where in Florida did you and your family go?” Well, we didn’t go to the Sunshine […]

Favorite Spins of 2015 : April Edition

It’s hard to believe we’re nearly into April already. Time flies when you’re being froze out by Old Man Winter, or Mother Nature, or whoever it was that shat upon us with snow and sub-zero temps the last three months. It’s a good thing that it’s been a great three months worth of album releases […]

Debussy, You’ve Made A Mess Of Me

Whenever I hear Claude Debussy’s “Clair de Lune” I always get sad. Not because it’s such a beautiful piece of music(which it is), but for other reasons. Reasons I’ll explain momentarily. Way back 15 years ago, a day after we had our first child, I had called my grandma Hubner to tell her that she […]

A Minor Detour

Hello. How’d the weekend go? You did what? Why you dirty bugger, you. How can you even look at yourself in the mirror after that sort of behavior. You’re an adult. You know better than to do those sorts of things. You know, I’m not sure we can hang out anymore. Just,…just grab your things […]

The Need For Speed

Year’s ’94 and my trunk is raw In my rear view mirror is the motherfucking law – Shawn Carter Okay, actually the year wasn’t ’94, it was ’88. 1988 to be exact. It was the last day of my 8th grade year and my mom picked me up from school. We only went a half […]

He Ain’t Heavy(He’s My Older Brother)

We have titles growing up in a household. There’s mom, dad, brother, sister, son, daughter, and even pet. I was a son and a brother in our home of four. Not only was I the brother but I was the younger brother. Yes, I have an older brother. We’re six years apart. I was born […]

No Pussyfootin’

Well it seems that the great winter storm we had a few weeks ago wasn’t nearly as great as they thought. Enter “Winter Storm Linus”. Yes, now the National Weather Service is naming storms after Peanuts characters. If they had to go with a Peanuts character to name a storm, why not go with “Pig […]