Blasts From the Pasts – Random Posts

• August 2011 Listening – Big in Berlin

  Around the globe listeners are finding Deeper Into Music.  Here’s a brief look at the streaming data for the first twenty-five days of August 2011. These stats represent the listening to the main 128 kbps stream – the default iTunes stream. It’s the IP [...]

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• Twenty-Nine Years Ago I Was On The Air And Playing…

  I’ve kept neatly hidden away a series of notebooks which contain nearly all my WXYC airshifts between late 1982 and mid 1984.  (I wish I had ones dating back to my start there in September 1980, but not so.) WXYC was in a transitional [...]

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• Review: The Smithereens – 2011

  You can go back to your roots.  New Jersey’s The Smithereens have done it with “2011“, their first album of wholly new material since 1999.  Also returning for this solid set are producer Don Dixon with engineer Mitch Easter.  The Smithereens first worked with [...]

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