News Report: Man With Guitar Envied By All

This one made me laugh out loud at work!

Download: Iggy & The Stooges' NPR Gig - Le Poisson Rouge, NYC

National Public Radio Music and WNYC's "Soundcheck" presented a First Listen Live concert from Iggy & The Stooges, broadcast live from New York City on April 28.  Watch 'em tear through songs from their new album, Ready to Die, and some of your old faves, too!

Download the audio HERE!

"Simon Says" Childrens' LP

I recently picked up a box of free LPs.  Don't get excited now, it was mostly junk library records!  Here was one of the ones in better condition.  Remember listenin' to these things in class?!

PUNK Is Coming...

John Holmstrom & Legs McNeil

Thank You To Flaming Pablum!

Few blogs hold my interest like Alex in NYC's Flaming Pablum; a sort of diary of NYC comings, goings, and long gones.  I've spent a total of probably 5 hours in New York City my entire life, but Alex's vivid descriptions of loves and losses in the city keep me anxious for every new post.

So, in honor of Flaming Pablum, here are some ancient views of the city.  Alex, I expect to see your kids posing at these locales in the near future!

28th Street Looking east from Second Avenue, on April 4, 1931

6th Ave and 40th St: "Nazi Army Now 75 Miles From Paris" on May 18, 1940

Italian vegetable stand on Bleeker Street, near Church of Our Lady of Pompeii, August 1937

Klaus Nomi with friend at Mr. Mike's Mondo Video Party, Tango Palace, Times Square 1979, by Allan Tannenbaum

Velvet Underground LP Made Of Wood

This was recently mentioned in the Velvet Forums and then today I noticed a full-blown article on The Verge website.



Records can be made out of just about anything: vinyl, 3D-printed plastic, paper, even ice. Over at Instructables, Amanda Ghassaei has set out to push the limits of music formats — after trying out Joy Division and the Pixies with 3D printing last year, she's moved on to laser-cut wood. The records are made on sheets of maple, though tests were done on paper, acrylic, and plywood. Because of the limits of the laser cutter, the grooves on the 12-inch wooden record are one to two orders of magnitude larger than on a modern vinyl record, and it plays at 33.3 RPM to fit more music.

Mail Pouch Tobacco Barn

As the years roll on, these barns are more difficult to find.  There are two on the Pennsylvania Turnpike on my way to Ohio from Washington DC.  This is the first one I go by - and looking through the camera lens you'd be hard pressed to tell if it was 2013 or sometime in the late 19th Century.