Once you get a taste of heaven, the sweetest flavors on earth will never satisfy again… My first live taste of Foxy Shazam happened to be at the Cincinnati album release concert in January 2012 for The Church of Rock and Roll. But this initiation and reimmersion into the live concert experience was not a high to be sustained [...]

Fun.: Some Nights – Album Review
Today marks the debut of Fun.’s new album entitled “Some Nights“. While it is technically the band’s second full-length studio album, this record feels more like an entry to the grand stage than that 2010 debut “Aim and Ignite“. While that record wasn’t completely indie, it didn’t have quite the “look at me” vibe that [...]

The Many Roles of the Sound of Silence
It’s been said that silence is deafening, and I’ve been doing my best to avoid it as of late. I have been positively swimming in music over the last six weeks. Working, driving, playing, exercising, or pontificating; I’m doing it all with a soundtrack. I mentioned last week that there are certain songs that put my [...]

Baptized into The Church of Rock & Roll
Have you ever had a Saturday schedule so empty and lame that you wondered if you could possibly squeeze two naps into it just to spice things up a little bit? I found myself starring right down the barrel of one such Saturday just this past weekend. I get to have my children stay with [...]
Music of This Moment
You know how there are certain songs in your life that, when you hear them, take you right back to that same glorious or soul-killing moment from your past? Whether its the first couple of bars, or a particularly perfect lyric, the right musical cue can transport you back to yester-year and transform you back [...]

The Zac Parsons Project
Of band names and organizations with the word “project” in the title, The Alan Parsons Project always seems to come to my mind first. If that name pings something in your brain, but are not sure exactly how you know it, perhaps this will help: If you are a basketball fan, you may recognize that [...]
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