Tag: music
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Twisted Branches… one in a very occasional series of short musings on weird band connections and “DNA”… It still kind of blows my mind that Foreigner was started by a founder of King Crimson. Did you know that? There’s shared “DNA” between “I Want to Know What Love Is” and “The Court of The Crimson King”…
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Welcome back to this list of my Top Ten Albums for 2018! Thank you for reading. If you haven’t yet, be sure to check out my choices for Albums 6 – 10 in the previous post. One thing you may not know? I write this list effectively backwards – start with the entry on #1, and work…
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My nomination for the Best Album of the first half of 2018 – The Moondoggies – A Love Sleeps Deep. I’d like to thank God, Serendipity, the Powers of the Universe, our Benevolent Overlords, Lords of Karma or whoever pretends to be running the cosmos for pulling The Moondoggies out of my lifelong dreams of…
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A special Music Extra! Just heard on WBKM.org… Mike Luoma welcomes musicians Matt Hutton and Sean Toohey into his living room for a conversation about their 25 years of making music together in Spray 9, Envy and The Red Telephone. It’s in honor of a special gig Matt and Sean play at Radio Bean in…
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Hey! Been a while. Like… almost a month! Two reasons – hadn’t heard anything that made me jump up and shout, “I must shine a musical spotlight on this!” And? I’ve been busy working on this streaming station you need to know about – WBKM.org! Join me live each weekday at Noon (ET), and check…
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Speaking of music… before we begin, a plug – please give a listen to my new radio home WBKM.org – I’m on weekdays at Noon! Onward… Ethereal. Love that word. Been getting a little too much use lately, however. It’s not a rugged word, one must treat it delicately, like gossamer and meringue. I blame…
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I love this song… before I get into it, though – in case you haven’t heard, or to remind you – I’m back on the radio! AND you can listen to me all over the world – on WBKM.org! Noon Eastern time every weekday. PLUS I’m helping program the station even when I’m not on…
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If you’re a writer, you’ve no doubt heard the phrase, “kill your darlings.” I’ve seen it attributed to William Faulkner. Whoever it originates with, the idea behind the phrase is that you have to edit yourself. You’ll write sentences, dialog, scenes, which you love – your “darlings” – but which often must be edited out –…
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Hey – do you like these Song of the Day Spotlights? Haven’t seen a whole lot of reaction. I’m not sure I’m going to keep posting them. Please let me know, either with a comment, or by sharing/mentioning on social media, or shooting me an email at glowinthedarkradio -at- gmail -dot- com. There are other…