Akron, Ohio's The Black Keys check-in at #22 in my Favorite-30 songs of 2019 and the Bowie album that introduced us to Major Tom turns 50!

Hello and welcome to 2019's first installment of Mixed-Up Memories! This is a playlist-driven retro-music feature that is available on both YouTube and Spotify. We begin the year with the Winter 2019 playlist. Most songs will have some sort of relevance to these Winter months, including but not limited to release dates of their albums. It could be a song with a Winter-theme or a song tied to an artist's birthday. My thought is to make some rules, bend them, and even throw

#19 Today's selection on the Lights-Camera-30 countdown of my Top-30 favorite songs of 2018 was the track that closed-out my Summer Favorite's playlist. It's from Slowly Rolling Camera, a trio out of Cardiff, Wales consisting of composer, Dave Stapleton on keyboards, Deri Roberts on electronics & sound design, and Eliott Bennett on drums. Their sound is a sweeping mix of jazz, trip-hop, and electronica that the three craft on a cinematic scale. "Juniper" is the their third s

I was told all of this was supposed to be gone this morning... Never mind a white Christmas. There's snow on the ground here in Northeast Massachusetts before Thanksgiving has even arrived! I still have some Mums and Calenduas that have been stubbornly refusing to concede to Winter's advance. My Marigolds put up a tough fight up until the thermometer sank near the teens the other night. I admire that. I put-in Fall bulbs a couple weekends ago. I planted an odd color of Da

Welcome to the weekend and Day-13 of The 31-Days of Halloween! It's a chilly rainy Saturday here in New England. The perfect kind of day to be thinking about creepy scary things. Here's a recent sight I found while walking around downtown Beverly. Nicely done! I'll be heading down to Lynn later this afternoon to check-out a photo exhibit by Boston radio legend, Julie Kramer. She was a longtime personality on the now defunct WFNX and can now be found middays on Indie-617, the

Hello there and welcome to the weekend. Today marks a pretty big moment in rock music history. It was in this day 46-years-ago on June 16th, 1972 that David Bowie released his fifth studio album, “The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars.” The record was recorded right on the heels of the studio-sessions for the 4th album,“Hunky Dory,” with some of the tracks completed before “Hunky Dory” was even released. The album’s main character, Ziggy Stardust (play

Hello again! Hope you're ready for a great Memorial Day weekend. I thought I'd pop-by and add a couple more tunes to the Mixed-Up Memories playlist for May. We have a big musical birthday today. British singer/songwriter, Paul Weller was born on May 25th, 1958. He's celebrating his 60th birthday. He formed his first band, The Jam while he was still in school in 1972. By 1977 they had been signed to Polydor Records and released their debut album, "In The City." They would go o

Hello everybody and welcome to another edition of Fun-4-Friday. I'm your host, Kristen Eck. There are a whole bunch of important Alternative Rock albums that came out this week in music history. I talked about The Cult's "Sonic Temple" and Hole's "Live Through This" earlier in the week on the Kristen Eck Radio Facebook page. Bob Marley And The Wailers released their LP, "Catch A Fire" 45-years-ago today in 1973. So just who is making this week's playlist? Let's begin on A

Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Fun-4-Friday! I'm your host Kristen Eck. Today is Good Friday and also the beginning of Passover with Easter coming-up on Sunday. Enjoy whatever you are celebrating or if you are doing neither, it's still National Crayon Day on Saturday and we just had Piano Day on Thursday. With that in-mind, my Friday tracks will all focus on the piano. Let me tell you, this was not an easy playlist to pare-down. As a result, I present you w

Welcome back to Friday, everyone! It was an eventful week in music history, including David Bowie's first ever television appearance. He was part of a blues outfit called The Manish Boys that appeared on the BBC's "Gadzooks" program. Bowie was going by the name of Davy Jones, which he soon ditched, due in-part to confusion with the other Davy Jones from The Monkees. American music magazine, "Creem" was published for the first time on March 5th, 1969. Credited by some as the