
Five years ago I moved out of the San Francisco Bay Area for the snowy, crisp mountains of Colorado. I absolutely love my adopted home, our vibrant music scene, and the fresh air here, but no foolin' I do often long for my hometown hills. Over the holidays I went to San Francisco for a week to stay at the Noe Valley apartment of friends who were out of town and graciously let me "housesit." It was a part of town I had never stayed in before. When I first let myself into their empty place on [...]

This Soul President 45 was one of the first real pieces of burning mayhem rarity that I picked up and I got a taste of the junkie like syndrome of a vinyl addict. First hits are perfect highs even if they last one day, and therefore I'm unable to distinguish if these are good songs, because to me they are unpolished westcoast-hippie-psychrock-fun k beauty. The throat chop gritty steel drum breaks and jangles of Got To Have It have always won over the Get It Right floor burner side for me, seriously though... Get a haircut. Big Mack. These should have [...]

Tomorrow, at the blogger's panel at NEMO , I'm sure we'll all be ask how we find and decide what music we post about. Well, I'm still trying to think of a good answer to that question. It's tough because it's different almost every time. One great example is how I came upon the spectactular new soul compilation from The Numero Group called Eccentric Soul: The Big Mack Label . A few weeks ago, I was going to lunch with k of Analog Giant and jds of [...]