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Can't Get It Outta My Head

Making a Masterpiece: The Band

If you’re a fan of The Music, AXSTV is a fun thing to have, generally. One of my favorite features of that cable network is its Classic...

The Birds, the Bears, and Clifton

I sort-of-regularly blog about the music that I Can’t Get Outta My Head. Then, there’s the music that gets into my head, and I can’t...

Millenial Pop

Oh, sorry — wasn’t trying to suck the most-recent generation into considering their musical favorites. But, hey, maybe I got their...

Hollow Fame, Mostly

I know — most every year I blog about the nominees for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. So you “young folks” can say “Okay,...

A Drop in the Bucket List

While Jeanne and I were driving to Milwaukee the weekend before last, she started searching on her phone for concerts she thought I might...

The Superhuman “Crew”

What was the name of the group that performed hundreds of Top 40 hits in the 1960s and ’70s? But is a bunch of guys, and a gal, you’ve...

The Dark Side of 50

A couple weeks ago was the 50th anniversary of the release of one of The Music’s most significant albums, Dark Side of the Moon. The...

A Motortown Christmas

Got a nice Christmas present recently, in the form of a concert. Jeanne didn’t pitch the tickets to “A Motown Christmas” as a Yuletide...

Scoring the Soundtrack of Our Teens

Like a lot of the members of my generation, Motown music made up much of the soundtrack of my teenage years. We remember the names of the...

R.I.P., Seeker Songstress

Pop Quiz: Who was the first Australian band to make it big in the U.K., U.S. and elsewhere other than Down Under? If you said the Bee...