For more writing from Teenage Kicks click here.
[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/kJizV-d3sEQ” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /]
“Turn it up, little bit higher, radio!” - Van Morrison
“Radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools trying to anesthetize the way that you feel” – Elvis Costello
“It’s a thin line between love and hate” – The Persuaders
I discovered the […]

For more writing from I Am Fuel You Are Friends click here.

Something utterly important to today’s alchemy of popular music occured on September the 8th, 1965. That was the day when the classified ad ran in Variety Magazine to attract what would ultimately become the first musical group crafted specifically for a television audience, a […]

For more writing from Everything Reminds Me of My Blog click here.

“I got a fever, and the only prescription … is more cowbell!”
Well, who am I to disagree with The Bruce Dickinson? Although it wasn’t as instantly popular as other lines that originated with “Saturday Night Live”, “more cowbell” has become one of the great […]

For more writing from Bloggerhythms click here.
The 885 Most Memorable Musical Moments project has forced me to re-evaluate all of the things that influenced my taste in music. One of these influences is the used CD store. Until now I never realized how much music I discovered in these hallowed shrines. The greatly reduced prices […]

For more writing from Music & More click here.

“And We Danced” (picture sleeve above) was released in 1985 as the second single from the album, Nervous Night, The Hooters’ major label debut for Columbia Records. Here’s the video.
[kml_flashembed movie=”http://youtube.com/v/dCgEr5D-Gwc” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /]

The call went out to The Hooters’ mailing list the last week of […]

For more writing from The Late Greats click here.
Just a little reminder, the memorable moments collection ends soon. Get over to the site and add your two cents.

About a month into our relationship, me and the eventual-misses journeyed to the Mount Ash-Wa-Bay. To The Big Top Chautauqua. To this gi-normous blue tent that holds concerts […]

For more writing from Citizen Mom click here.
This is the fifth installment in my Friday Guest Blogger gig for XPN’s 885 Most Memorable Musical Moments blog, with apologies for ditching last week.
It took a good five years after its debut on BBC2 for “The Young Ones” to make it all the way across the […]

For more writing from Everything Reminds Me of My Blog click here.

It was, perhaps, the ultimate mixtape: a 90-minute selection of music, recorded on a gold-plated copper disk that was sent into space aboard the spacecraft Voyager 2, on August 20, 1977. Knowing that the path of Voyager would take it, and its twin, past […]

For more writing from Bloggerhythms click here.
Almost one year ago I posted an essay on Bloggerhythms that appears to have attracted more interest than most of the other articles I’ve written. The subject fits right in with the theme of WXPN’s 885 Most Memorable Musical Moments so I thought I would re-post it as this […]

For more writing from Teenage Kicks click here.

Springsteen After Study Hall (May 25, 1974)
I was a budding music obsessive lost in the alcohol-stoked wilderness of high school. My high school – Archbishop John Carroll (Radnor, PA) – was to host Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band in concert in our school theater. Two fellow […]