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West 8th Street in `86 27 Aug 2013 | 04:12 am
Here's just a quick one I spotted on YouTube this evening. Witness this grainy Super 8 film of someone's trip to New York City (departing from Miami) in 1986. Lots of the usual NYC touchstones make ca...
Happy Birthday, Elvis 24 Aug 2013 | 04:25 am
Hey, it’s Elvis Costello’s birthday on Sunday. No longer the "Angry Young Man of the British New Wave," Mr. Costello will be turning 59, if I’m not mistaken. Honestly, I’m just using that as an excuse...
Herbie's Manhattan 23 Aug 2013 | 08:59 am
It must have been fate. Earlier this evening, I was enjoying a rant from a rock-writer friend on Facebook. Phil wrote: I've written a lot of dumb shit over the years. But Jonah Bromwich, via the AV....
Cross Another Off the List: Bleecker Street Records 22 Aug 2013 | 06:13 pm
The word on this one started circulating a while back, but it looks like it's now official. As reported this morning on Jeremiah Moss' Vanishing New York, Bleecker Street Records on ... wait for it......
Happy Birthday, Joe Strummer 22 Aug 2013 | 02:10 am
Originally, I wasn’t going to put up a post about it being Joe Strummer’s birthday. That’s kinda what Facebook is for these days. But then I stumbled upon the two photos below (neither of which I’d sp...
Where The Music Lived: REMIX 21 Aug 2013 | 03:27 am
Okay, last one of these for a while ... I promise. A reader recently wrote in response to my vanished-record-store-round-up from a little while back. Arem wrote: I know they are out of your areas of...
Dronin' Downtown 20 Aug 2013 | 05:59 pm
I have no real idea what the Phantom in question is, although I'm guessing it's a remote-controlled min-copter with a camera (or "drone," for those of you who like to get riled-up). In any case, the f...
Punk Rockers on the Upper East Side: Searching for Brian Damage 18 Aug 2013 | 12:04 am
Here’s a bit of weird one. You may remember earlier this year when I penned a little post about the notion of Bryan Gregory and Lux Interior of The Cramps both being employed at two separate record s...
Where The Music Lived: Remastered Extra Tracks 15 Aug 2013 | 02:55 am
Hey again, all… Greetings from sun-bleached Houston, Texas! I’m here for a week on a family matter, but I’ll be back in the New York swing of things soon enough. Hope you’re all hanging in there. In...
Where the Music Used to Live 10 Aug 2013 | 07:32 am
Here's an entry I've long-threatened to post, but it was always such a time-suck to put together that I never got around to it. But I'm about to go away for a week (more about that later), so figured ...
