‘Music’ Archive

Summertime

The sun’s rays are at zenith at 23.5 degrees north latitude right now — you know what that means:

Capital Weather Gang (The Post) has a thorough explanation of the summer solstice.

Music Tuesday: Nearly Lost You

This Screaming Trees song was an earworm yesterday, so I post it today:

When I sang a few bars to reacquaint my wife with it, my son laughed a lot.

SPRING!

I thought about going with Fantasia, but this works fine.

HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY

I’m still never more proud of my Irish heritage (I’m 1/128th) than when I see this video.

BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH

Heavy Metal Parking Lot approaching 25th anniversary

So, I go to the NY Daily News Web site this morning and I see this:
‘Heavy Metal Parking Lot’ 25th anniversary celebrated at Found Footage Festival screening.
It is already almost 5 years since I interviewed Jeff Krulik and John Heyn about the 20th anniversary of Heavy Metal Parking Lot. The cult classic is a documentary [...]

Happy Thanksgiving

A Happy Thanksgiving to you wherever you may be. I’m at work and then headed over to my folks house where I will build a fire, have some Turkey before my turkey, greet my wife and son upon their arrival, watch some football, have a Thanksgiving dinner that couldn’t be beat and then go home.
And [...]

Ravens using old Colts marching band song

Ravens Build New Tradition With Fight Song – WBAL
When the Baltimore Ravens arrived and retained the Baltimore Colts Marching Band (changed to the Marching Ravens a few years later), I just assumed they would use the old marching song. I was kind of surprised when I watched Barry Levinson’s excellent ESPN documentary The Band That [...]

Music Tuesday: Gone, Gone, Gone

Keeping the theme of songs dealing with Penn State opponents for Music Tuesday this football season can be a little tricky. For example, I was unaware of any Iowa musicians, so I had to look at Wikipedia. The Everly Brothers came up, so I figured they’d be as good as anyone. The Nittany Lions play [...]

Music Tuesday: She’s Gone

BLUE EYED SOUL! John Oates and Daryl Hall went to Temple, Penn State’s Saturday opponent, so this week’s Music Tuesday gets this “amazing” video of “She’s Gone,” one of their early hits.

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