This week on Vinally Friday: A little bit of a truncated version of our usual Friday as both Alanya and Tommy are off the air. But Craig and Robert are still here, and they’ll be dipping back into the late ’60s with a few rarities from a few of the greatest musical contributors of the […]
Vinally Friday – 12/22
We owe Alanya a modest “mahalo.” Thanks to her obscure selection for this week’s edition of Vinally Friday, we actually escaped the frigidity outside for a moment and actually warmed our toes to an pit fire on the beaches of Hawaii. Okay, so maybe our imagination got a little carried away. But when a quick […]
Vinally Friday, 12/15
Somewhere between the 1970 Woodstock compilation and Bob Dylan’s Triplicate from earlier this year, the critics had to have realized the artists were no longer listening. To be sure, we’re not entirely clear they were ever all that engaged in the first place. But since that time, dozens of your favorite artists have released triple-albums […]
Vinally Friday – 12/8
It was quite the conundrum: He could rock out to a crowd 80,000 deep in Detroit one night, but less than a thousand would turn out in Chicago the next. Of course, this was long before the Internet and even longer before social media – during a time when word-of-mouth spread even faster than even […]
Vinally Friday – 12/1
Why is it the most passionate music seems to emanate from fingertips and lips of the dying? We saw it with Warren Zevon’s Grammy-winning final album, The Wind, released just two weeks before he succumbed to mesothelioma in 2003 and again last year with David Bowie’s multi-Grammy-winning Black Star, which dropped just two days before […]
Vinally Friday – 10/27
As much as we love it, nothing triggers the feeling of the endless time warp like the holiday season. Most of this has to do with family roles: No matter how much we age, when we meet our family around the dining table it’s nearly impossible to avoid slipping into old patters and behaviors. The […]
