Category: music

• music Record reviews

  It takes a nation of millions to pay for our health care

  Baby Boomers Social Club Dance Red Lion Convention Center 7 December 2012 Portland, Oregon The mosh pit formed early on that rainy Friday night thanks to one of the best cover bands I’ve heard in years, Crash Sunday. This all-male quintet (average age around 40) knew what we wanted to…

  February 3, 2013
• music

  Index to Year 2 of Run-DMSteve

  Greetings, honorable ones. The second-year anniversary of this blog was in November 2012. I would’ve posted my index then, but I was high. Today I rectify that error. I see you shiver in antici – Say it! – pation. It is my humble hope that something I’ve written here has…

  January 20, 2013
• music

  2012 in review

  The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 4,600 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have…

  January 3, 2013
• Miscellaneous music

  A novel approach

  I concluded ’70s Week with a list of my favorite songs and ’80s Week with a survey of women in rock, but ’90s Week is just over, period. This is not because I don’t like the music of the 1990s, because I do. But the ’90s was the first decade…

  June 22, 2012
• Miscellaneous music

  The source of my super powers

  The biggest change in music in the 1990s came from the Internet. This is not a secret. We flocked online when the first graphical user interface browser was introduced in 1993, and by 1999 you could listen to your favorite radio station by visiting their website. In fact, you didn’t…

  June 21, 2012