#2 Lights-Camera-30 Countdown #2 Invisible Minds Back in my December 10th blog entry I had mentioned there was only one artist with two songs in my Top-30 favorites of 2018. That artist is Invisible Minds. The creation of longtime London DJ & producer Tim Green, it was the culmination of 12-years worth of work on songs he had tinkered with and slowly crafted over time. We spent half of 2018 with a few tracks and not knowing who Invisible Minds was, but when Green finally

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 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

Hello and welcome to a new week! We're almost midway into March with lots of exciting music releases and shows ahead. International Women's Day happened last Thursday, March 8th and I didn't get a moment to really sift through my thoughts until now on a Sunday morning over coffee before heading out to the Georgia O’Keeffe exhibit at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem. International Women's Day is a wonderful opportunity for us to reflect upon and honor the achievements and con

Hey everyone... Welcome back to Friday! This is one of my favorite days of the week because it has become the predominant day in the music industry for the release of new albums. That's great timing in my mind, as I love sitting down at my desk on Saturday morning with a cup of coffee and having a first listen to my pile of new music! Before we get to the new stuff, though, let's take a quick spin in the time-machine and see what classic Alternative Rock albums came out th

Hello hello and welcome to another edition of Knock Knock: New Music! February 12th marks an anniversary for those of us who grew-up in the Boston area in the 1980's. Though MTV went on the air in 1981, many of us did not have cable. Living on Cape Cod, we were in-range of the over-the-air broadcast signals from television stations in both Boston and Providence, RI. At my house, my family had a rooftop antenna that picked-up the primary VHF stations that carried network prog