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Last Year Says It Needs to Be Said – 2018’s 10 Best EPs

The typical 12-inch vinyl record you will find at the record store can hold roughly 22 minutes of sound per side….if pressed at the typical 33 revolutions per minute (rpm). When Columbia Records introduced the microgroove technology in 1948, it became the standard of the music industry and a format that would come to define the Long Playing (LP) full-length record. Competing with the LP record were “45s”, the 7″ vinyl records played at 45 rpms (hence the name). “45s”...

Memory Crusades: Is This It? The Strokes

  Sometimes our memories pick odd items to hold onto. A seemingly innocuous moment from our life is given over to the past, and is somehow framed with far greater importance than we believe it deserves. Nevertheless, it takes hold in our mind, shapes itself into a memory worth cherishing and brings forth either a warm nostalgia or a wistful melancholy. There is certain music that takes me back to a definable moment when I could remember the vivid details surrounding...

Memory Crusades: A Periodic Post

Do you remember the smell of your first girlfriend’s perfume? I still remember that perfume. It was distinctive, it smelled both fruity and brimming with youth. It was junior high. I actually smelled that exact perfume just the other day when I was walking down the street. It was unmistakable. It hit me like a ton of bricks, and all the feelings from that first relationship came sweeping forward in waves. I was instantly transported back to that school corridor, walking...