It’s not really known how many “new to you” albums the average music consumer listens to in a year, though the r/music fans on Reddit seem to have numbers that…
Quarantainment : Digging Your Own Crates, Part 9
There weren’t really revelations in records 81 through 90, but there were a few uncatalogued diversions into a couple of Harry Belafonte records, one Tower of Power, and one Gentle…
Quarantainment : Digging Your Own Crates, Part 8
There had to be a rough patch in here eventually. A majority of the next ten records were a disappointment, having made the terrible mistake of picking up a patch…
Quarantainment : Digging Your Own Crates, Part 7
More than anything else, probably, ‘Quarantainment’ is a series about being stuck in an apartment with a giant pile of things. How to co-habitate with things, how to let go…
Quarantainment : Digging Your Own Crates, Part 6
I’m not sure how to mentally or emotionally process listening to 50 new records over the course of two months, but it feels like I’ve barely scraped the surface of…
Quarantainment : Digging Your Own Crates, Part 5
When you’re 40 albums into thoughtfully sorting a collection of hundreds, it’s tempting to stop being meticulous and giving every album a few moments of your time. You start to…
Quarantainment : Digging Your Own Crates, Part 4
When you have an accidental record collection that reaches numbers you’ve given up on counting, it’s time to slim down. Take all of the audio that’s ever been released on…
Quarantainment : Digging Your Own Crates, Part 3
By the time you’re reading this episode of Quarantainment, our personal quarantine is at least partially over. We’ve been to a few Goodwills, eaten take-out lunch in the car, and…
Monsters Away : Who Were The Gazillions?
For a couple of years in the early 2000s, I ran a small Sunday morning AM radio show on an upstate NY college campus. I called it Delicious Radio, and…
Quarantainment : Digging Your Own Crates, Part 2
Quarantine is slowly creeping to an end. The world may not be totally safe, but it’s finally safe enough for anyone who’s been vaccinated, and digging through record crates again…
Quarantainment : Digging Your Own Crates, Part 1
It’s been a long year of Covid. If there was even the smallest chance that close contact with other people could cause their illness or death, it was worth it…
One Album Wonder : Rudi Vannelli
Virtuoso guitarist Rudi Vannelli died in 1961 of a heart attack, five years after he released his one and only album on Verve Records, 11 tracks under the title Maestro…
