Last year I collected some songs of spookiness here for Halloween, and a few years before that put together a Halloween compilation “The Moon Hangs in Black.” I’m not a rabid Halloween fan or anything, but I do like collecting songs around a theme. And Halloween is an especially fun theme to work with! The…
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Rush’s Deep Cut “Red Lenses”
Rush’s 1984 track “Red Lenses” is a textbook example of a “deep cut”: a track not well known and generally overlooked when an album first came out. Often deep cuts get their moment much later, when everyone’s tired of the hits and explores a little farther. Well, that’s not exactly the case with “Red Lenses,”…
2016: Sixteen Music Things I Loved this Year
In some ways, 2016 was a grim year. A lot of great musicians died, there was divisive political turmoil in the U.S., the environment continued to take a beating worldwide (including up the road from me where even more subdivisions replace the last sections of woods and farms in the area), and the media got…
Time Stands Still For No Rush Fan
I had the opportunity, last night, to see the new Rush documentary Time Stand Still. It was playing in “select theaters” around North America for one night only, and – being as I live near Rush’s hometown of Toronto – it was in quite a few not too far from me. So, along with a…
Rush, Hell & the Summer of ’81
The stream turned blood orange red that summer. Back in the woods behind the apartment complex where I lived, my friends and I had spent the previous years building small dams, floating things and basically just hanging out. The stream was a drainage stream, and not long after spring had melted into languorous longer days,…
Taking a Bite Out of 2013: Year End Wrap-Up
I’ve written about a few of my favorite things (why do I hear Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music singing “these are a few of my favorite things”?), musically speaking, that were released this year. Some of my words were published on PopMatters (Dent May, Bobby Whitlock, Tommy Keene, Robbie Basho, etc.) and some…
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