When my wife and I bought our first house, it was a small two-bedroom doer upper. It needed plenty of work, but the most memorable was the asbestos removal. Obviously asbestos has a dangerous reputation, but at the same time,…
Congratulations to Tony (mumblingabout.com) who scored 29/30 in last week’s quiz. This week, can you pick the famous members of famous bands by the third sentence in their Wikipedia article? I scored 20, but you have the chance to…
I don’t want my weekly song post to turn into an obituary thread, but the world of popular music lost another significant member this week with the passing of Hüsker Dü drummer and song-writer Grant Hart. Like a lot of…
Congratulations to Jim S,Rich, Tony, and Aaron, who all bought sexy back and recorded perfect scores in last week’s trivia quiz. In this week’s quiz, you need to tell the system if a song is from a solo act, or…
Neil Young has enjoyed a long and erratic music career. His first brush with fame came with Buffalo Springfield in the 1960s. He released his first solo album in 1969, and he also teamed up with Crosby, Stills, and Nash…
We’re reaching peak rock star death era – many of the musicians active during rock music’s formative years are reaching their seventies. This week we lost Walter Becker of Steely Dan, who was an integral part of one of the…
Rich, Tony, and J. all scored perfect 20/20 in last week’s Wikipedia quiz. This week, can you match the song name with its subject? There’s lots of interesting trivia to be learnt. Just like last week, I scored an…
Rich, Tony, and J. all scored perfect 20/20 in last week’s Wikipedia quiz. This week, can you match the song name with its subject? There’s lots of interesting trivia to be learnt. Just like last week, I scored an…
After years of playing live, The Band recorded the Basement Tapes with Bob Dylan, where they developed their unique melding of rock with traditional folk, country and blues forms. The organic harmonies, the virtuoso but unassuming musicianship, and songs that seemed to…
Not content with merely creating some of the greatest albums ever made (and winning a bucket-load of Grammy Awards) during the 1970s, Stevie Wonder also produced a couple of albums for his ex-wife Syreeta Wright. He wrote most of the…
Congratulations to Rich (), who scored a perfect 24/24 in last week’s tough quiz. Hopefully this week’s is a little easier – Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to identify a band from the third sentence…
Whether he’s recording as the guitarist and co-leader of Hüsker Dü, as a solo artist, or as the leader of Sugar, you generally know what you’re going to get from Bob Mould. I understand that he’s diversified somewhat on some…
