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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 state at the time, not quite the eclectic powerhouse it...
It could be a guilty pleasure or a widely-beloved chestnut or it could be brand new. What’s your all-time favorite album or song? I’d like to know your story behind your favorite. I hope you’ll share it with other Deeper Into Music listeners and blog readers. For me, as I’ve written elsewhere on this blog,...
Nothing takes me back to the summers of my youth more than The Yes Album. From the opening processional of “Yours is No Disgrace” right through to “Perpetual Change” exists an elegant time capsule of the very early days of progressive rock music. Drive, experimentation, lyrical naivete, all tempered with a sound melodic sense keep...
In Greek mythology a box given to Pandora was filled with all the evils of the world. Unable to resist, she opened it and its contents were loosed upon the world. Pandora’s box has come to symbolize unmitigated evil. Pandora also happens to be the name of a popular online streaming service available only to...
With this post I plan to start an occasional series of articles about albums featured on Deeper Into Music. Some will be new, others classics and some will will be lost gems nearly forgotten by the ravages of time. Quite arbitrarily I am starting with a 1985 release by The Connells, a North Carolina-based...
Most of us in college radio in 1980 didn’t know quite what to make of “Crazy Rhythms,” the first full-length Feelies release. There was that cover, for starters. Four guys against a gradient blue background looking for all the world like the math nerds nearly everyone avoided in high school. As for the music,...
