Remembering Radio (and Me), Part 4: 1993

And so, 1993: twenty years ago, the year I turned 25, graduated from BYU, started graduate school, and married Melissa. And also, to a great extent, stopped being interested in radio, at least to the…

Remembering Radio (and Me), Part 3: 1988

By 1988, the year I turned 20 years old, I'd left Spokane, WA, never (yet) to return with any kind of permanence. Instead, for half of the year I lived in Provo, UT, attending Brigham Young Unive…

Remembering Radio (and Me), Part 2: 1983

So, 1983, the year I turned 15, my last year in junior high (in Spokane, WA, at that time they divided up the grades K-6, 7-9, and 10-12) and the first and only year during my youth which I spent out…

Remembering Radio (and Me), Part 1: 1978

Last week, Matt Yglesias asked why people don't remember the 1990s more fondly. (This isn't the first time he's blogged nostalgically for his Clinton-era youth.) Noah Millman and Ja…

Richie Havens, RIP

Perhaps the greatest, truest, unsung hero of America's original folk-rock scene has died. On October 16, 1992, more than 20 years ago, he appeared onstage at the 30th Anniversary Concert Celebra…

Dave Brubeck, RIP

A year and a half ago, we lost Joe Morello . Now, David Brubeck has joined him . Of the greatest cool jazz quarter of all time--Brubeck on piano, Morello on drums, Paul Desmond on alto saxophone, and…

If Wes Anderson Lived in the Real World Instead of a Glorious Retro Toy Shop...

...this would be the trailer to his latest movie. Lacking that, I suppose I'm just going to have to get this album . Aurally beautiful, visually profound. ( Thanks, Laura McKenna .)

The Five Best Concert Movies Ever

As usual , I'm using some attention-grabbing hyperbole here--think "the five best pop/rock/folk/funk concert movies/music documentaries I've seen." But I have to say that lately I&#…

Simply Mad About Rotoscope Animation

A random find on YouTube, one too good not to share. Some blessed soul remembered the glory which was Disney's early 90s awakening from its long slumber , and its first forays into MTV-era pop hi…

Summer's Here

Well, maybe not quite, but with my final grades submitted at last, it's close enough for me and JT anyway. I actually have my tape of Dad Loves His Work on right now, and it's kind of bitte…

"This is for Trayvon"

So said the Boss has he tore into this new classic of his (now a dozen years old, and as angry and as despairing as ever) a week ago at a show in Florida. The man's albums may have gone on autopi…