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House Concert- You’re Invited!

April 12, 2010 by Annie

I’m thrilled to announce that we’ll be hosting a house concert featuring our friends Steve Lawson & his lovely wife Lobelia at our home on May 31, 2010. Steve is a solo bass player. Never heard of solo bass? You’re in for a treat. Lobelia’s ethereal voice blends and compliments Steve’s playing- it’s something I [...]

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My Top 30 Songs of the Aughts

December 29, 2009 by Annie

Is it really the end of the decade? Technically no, but “best of the decade” lists are everywhere so I jumped on board. I started just going through my iTunes and grabbing songs, then I whittled it down, and whittled it down- and found I couldn’t get the list any smaller than this. It still [...]

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Record Store Day at Vintage Vinyl in NJ

April 19, 2009 by Annie

Had lots of fun visiting Vintage Vinyl in Fords NJ yesterday for Record Store Day. They had live music, including The Color Fred & Willie Nile. Nice size crowd (of all ages!) turned out. Pat was on a camping trip with our kids but I met up with my friend Mike, a Vintage Vinyl veteran, [...]

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crickets

April 18, 2009 by Annie

Pretty much everything I thought of posting here recently was something that was better off not posted here. I’ll have some photos and video from my visit to Vintage Vinyl for Record Store Day later. Got this and a few others while I was there! Also came across these awesome Twitter plates while browsing catalogs. [...]

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Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band 07-28-2008

July 28, 2008 by Annie

Bruce Flag Mobile post sent by banannie using Utterz. Replies. mp3 View from our seats Mobile post sent by banannie using Utterz. Replies. Tunnel of Love (audio) Mobile post sent by banannie using Utterz. Replies. mp3 Born to Run Mobile post sent by banannie using Utterz. Replies. mp3

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What’s your favorite Beatles song?

May 14, 2008 by Annie

This morning I posted to Twitter Good morning, tweeties! playing a little Beatles to get moving- Good Day Sunshine. and then I asked So, what’s your favorite Beatles song? Then I went into Seesmic and posted the same question. Which lead to a long, fun conversation there (click view thread if you only see one [...]

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RIP Danny Federici

April 17, 2008 by Annie

From Backstreets Danny Federici, the E Street Band’s organist and keyboard player since its inception, died this afternoon, April 17, 2008 at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City after a three-year battle with melanoma. His sound was so much a part of what Bruce & the Band created. We’ll miss you, Danny.

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Mixed message

March 12, 2008 by Annie

Jeff Pulver attended the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductions and writes that the swag bag that attendees received contained a CD of music from inductees, as well as a package of 30 blank CDs. Jeff writes I am still trying to understand what the meta message was from the Rock Hall of giving [...]

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… to long the songs have been silent…

December 17, 2007 by Annie

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If you could see me dancing around the room right now…

August 23, 2007 by Annie

Just got my grubby little hands on a download of “Radio Nowhere” from the upcoming Bruce & E Street album Magic. Niiiiiiiice. —————- Now playing: Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band – Radio Nowhere

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How JoCo Did It

May 19, 2007 by Annie

I’ve been a fan of Jonathan Coulton for awhile now, which in internet years is about six or eight months, maybe? I first came across Coulton via the audiobook version of John Hodgman’s The Areas of My Expertise, which was a free download at iTunes for awhile (coincidently I’d just purchased the actual book, so [...]

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Positive Pop

May 7, 2007 by Annie

Blogcritics has posted a list of the Top 25 Positive Songs of Popular Music. After a long, drab, winter, postive songs are just what I need! You can find the full list here, but I’m going to riff on the songs that resonate with me, likely because they bring back moments in my own life. [...]

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Making a difference costs 99 cents

March 21, 2007 by Annie

I’m late to this party (not too late!) but this is pretty awesome. Bum Rush the Charts is an effort by a group of podcasters to get a specific independent song to the top of the iTunes chart on Thursday March 22. That’s tomorrow. Why? Well, this is what the site says: Podcasting gets little [...]

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