I glanced up at the calendar the other day and realized we’re back in the midst of another election season. Suddenly I was being inundated with emails, urging me to vote. I take voting very seriously so I appreciated the first ten or twenty emails. It was then that I realized I had to get…
“It’s strange these days when everybody else pays for someone else’s mistake…” Pearl Jam, “Dark Matter” Oh man, I wish I could tell you how excited I am about new Pearl Jam. After teasing it for a few days on “the social media,” Pearl Jam have just dropped the first song from their upcoming twelfth…
Ok, while I’ll admit that there aren’t any “Casey Kasem Long Distant Dedication,” mushy songs on this playlist, there are some mellow and perhaps melancholy tracks… but then when it comes to “affairs of the heart,” melancholy was kinda my thing for a long time… Have no fear, there’s no Bette Midler on this thing….
It’s been a crazy week around here at B&V. It feels like the Grammy performance on Sunday was a lifetime ago. But, when you live in a city with an NFL team in the Super Bowl, it tends to be a week more of bourbon than of vinyl… That said, I never watch the Grammy…
“Did I wait too long to turn the lights back on?” – Billy Joel, “Turn The Lights Back On” “No, you didn’t.” – BourbonAndVinyl.net I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to be writing about a new Billy Joel song in 2024. I’ve been doing this blog for a while now and I’ve never…
“Run, run, runYou’re only flesh and boneRun, run, runAnd you’re out there on your own” – The Cult, “Flesh And Bone” While I’m on record as a big fan of the Cult, I have to admit I was late getting on the bandwagon. They were almost 20 years down the road when the Rock Chick…
We are not even out of January and it already feels like we’ve gotten more new music from B&V artists this year than we did in all of 2023. I’ve spent the last few weeks writing about all the new singles that have come out: Liam Gallagher with former Stone Roses guitarist John Squire’s new…
Now that the holidays have passed and we’re in that grey, horrible grip of winter signalling the slow slog that is January (and February, for that matter), I found myself succumbing to SAD – seasonal affect disorder. If you’re a fellow suffer, you’re not alone… reach out if you need help. I was beginning to…
It’s no secret that I’ve been a huge fan of the Black Crowes since I first heard “Jealous Again” while I was driving around in my car in 1990. Granted, it wasn’t until I heard “Hard To Handle” that I drove to the record store and bought their landmark debut Shake Your Money Maker, but…
Fridays are when new music, albums and single songs, get released. It used to be Tuesdays – which was admittedly strange (it was done to “game” the weekly charts) – but somewhere along the line the music industry switched it to Fridays which just works better for me personally. If I’m going to sip a…