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Stuff That Makes My Life Better: 98.1 FM, Blue Ridge Country radio

Wednesday, September 13th, 2006

I don’t know how many non-corporate music-radio stations are left (besides college radio). I do know I never liked country as much as I do now that I know 98.1 FM. It broadcasts out of Galax, Virginia, right over the state line. In the evenings, from 6 to 10 p.m., they have this “Blue [...]

Awesome, Joe, Music, North Carolina, Places, Winston-Salem | 2 comments

I remember the first time I trusted a record review.

Sunday, July 16th, 2006

I trusted two, I don’t remember why. I bought Spiritualized’s “Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space” and Yo La Tengo’s “I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One,” one from Music Millenium and the other from Everyday Music (both in Portland). Those were significant music decisions to me, and those are great albums. [...]

Joe, Music, Portland, Rock | 1 comment

It’s been a while since I fell for a song,

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

And it happened today. Birdmonster’s last track on the album “No Midnight.” It’s called Spaceman, it starts off pop-rocky and ends with this ridiculous hand-clap earnest-acoustic 3-minute outro with lyrics like ‘pretty spacemen all in a row-oh-oh.’

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