Who is Greg Brown, you might ask? (I know I did.) He was the founding guitarist of the band Cake, who happened to have penned this little di...

The CurseForge graphics for World of Warcraft were updated more quickly this time around than in the War Within expansion: Screencap from Cu...

Once in a while I'll hear a song I haven't heard in decades, and I'll suddenly realize that I'd missed a critical part of wh...

Back in my tween years in the early 80s, my listening habits straddled the New Wave Pop sound with Rock. If the music you listen to when you...

Every so often, the YouTube algorithm pops up something that I really love. This time, it's the kinda-sorta Beatles song, Now and Then. ...

I first heard The Moody Blues on the radio in 1981, as their Long Distance Voyager album came out in early Summer. It got heavy airplay on ...

The L50 boundary has been crossed. Of course the Songshine sisters would be first to L50. Because competition between siblings. This is as o...

Well, I pulled off another "Not Quite a Blaugust" Blaugust. No signups, no fanfare, no topics. Just writing for 31 days. Things tu...

One of the goals I had when I went to college was to experience some things that I knew I wasn't going to have a chance to do again. Tha...

1982 was a bit of a seminal year for me. The 1981-1982 school year was my 7th Grade. I was knee deep in puberty, I'd been playing D&...

This week, a significant portion of my youth passed away. First, the news broke a couple of days ago that Ozzy Osbourne passed away, a few w...

Well, it does for me. Oh, not in real life. IRL, I'm a softie who enjoys romance. Not necessarily Romance novels, mind you,* but I meant...

Kind of a mouthful of a title, isn't it? I stumbled on this book when I was browsing the stacks at a local bookstore, and the title int...

In honor of another year's Advent calendar of music from Bhagpuss over at Inventory Full , I thought I'd provide my own quirky piec...

Yes, it really is. My youngest sent me a recommendation of this song by Haley Heynderickx (the last name is correct) and the first thing I t...

I've been hunting down Halloween music for giving out candy tonight, and one piece that keeps coming up in my searches and on the local ...

I've been on a bit of a 70s kick lately, and that doesn't mean I've been wearing loud clothing* or considering putting in wooden...

Yes, I grew up in the 70s. While my teenage years were in the early to late 80s, my formative childhood years as a kid born at the end of th...