Kristen Eck
- Mar 26, 2018
- 2 min
Knock Knock: New Music! 3/26/2018
Hello again and welcome back to Knock Knock: New Music! I'm your host, Kristen Eck. We have some big holidays coming up at the end of the week. I am, of course, referring to National Turkey Neck Soup Day on Friday, followed by National Crayon Day on Saturday. Seriously, though.. Piano Day is this Thursday, March 29th. I'll have more about that later this week! From the historical files, RCA introduced the 45-RPM record this week. The Clash released their first single in Great
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Kristen Eck
- Mar 23, 2018
- 3 min
Fun-4-Friday: 3/23/2018
Hello and welcome to the end of the week... That must mean it's time for Fun-4-Friday! It was Winter when we began the week and now it is Spring. Things are looking brighter already. This week saw a huge anniversary for an essential Alternative Rock album. It was 30-years ago on March 21st, 1988 that Boston band, Pixies released their debut LP, "Surfer Rosa." It would go Gold in the U.S., Canada, and Britain and was named Album-of-the-Year by Melody Maker and Sounds magazine
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Kristen Eck
- Mar 19, 2018
- 3 min
Knock Knock: New Music! 3/19/2018
Hello and welcome to a new week! Spring arrives on Tuesday, but you wouldn't know it from the thermometer, which sits at a nice frosty 19-degrees this morning in the Boston area. The International Day of Happiness happens on Wednesday just ahead of a potential Nor'easter on Thursday. Oh well, we'll still have music to listen to while we wait for Spring to arrive in-earnest here in New England... Sometime around June. From the music history files for this week: Pink Floyd, U
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Kristen Eck
- Mar 16, 2018
- 2 min
Fun-4-Friday: 3/16/2018
Hello there and welcome to Fun-4-Friday! This isn't just any old Friday... It's the Friday before St. Patrick's Day... St. Patrick's Eve if you will. So we need Irish music and lots of it! My choices, obviously will be from within and near the realm of alternative rock, but I'm going beyond the usual four songs on the Friday playlist. Let's get crazy shall we? We'll start with the ever lovable Shane MacGowan and The Pogues. You can't have a rock & roll St. Patty's Day without
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Kristen Eck
- Mar 5, 2018
- 2 min
Knock Knock: New Music 3/5/2018
Hello and welcome back to Knock Knock: New Music! There's a number of things going on in music history this week, including David Bowie's first-ever television appearance (before he was even known as "Bowie.") He also had a big album release this week in 1975. We also saw notable record releases from Tears For Fears, Nine Inch Nails, Soundgarden, The Buzzcocks, and U2. We also have some big musical birthdays this week including David Gilmour, Chris Squire, John Cale, and Ga
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Kristen Eck
- Mar 1, 2018
- 2 min
February's Plays & Making Chipmunk Music
Greetings and welcome to the month of March! Don't forget to check-out the entire February playlist for Knock Knock: New Music! now available on Spotify. We listened to a bunch of great new artists together last month! I had quite a bit of music & entertainment history info for this week, so I figured I'd get a head-start on it today. Not to worry, though... Fun-4-Friday music videos are still on the schedule for tomorrow! The CD player made its debut in the United States 35
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Kristen Eck
- Feb 26, 2018
- 2 min
Knock Knock: New Music! 2/26/2018
Welcome to a new week and another edition of Knock Knock: New Music! Lots of stuff going on in music history this week... 45-RPM records reached a new milestone, as did CD-Players, and the very first commercial FM radio station went on-the-air as well. We found-out about things that go to "11" and how difficult life-in-a-band can be when your drummer keeps spontaneously combusting. Also this week, we celebrate some big birthdays in music including Lou Reed, Johnny Cash, and
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Kristen Eck
- Feb 24, 2018
- 2 min
Breakfast Bytes: 2/24/2018
Morning everyone and welcome to the weekend! I mentioned in yesterday's edition of Fun-4-Friday that I'm working on sharpening the focus of the Friday feature, which I believe is trending toward retro with a weekly look back at some fun music from the past. Friday, though, is the big day for NEW album releases, so what to do? Why not chat about them over coffee on Saturday morning? Let's give that a try. Today's feature comes complete with a Spotify playlist, so you can h
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Kristen Eck
- Feb 24, 2018
- 3 min
Fun-4-Friday: 2/23/2018
Hello again and welcome back to Fun-4-Friday! This is still a work-in-progress, as I'm trying to sharpen-the-focus of each of my features. Let's talk music history for this week... I mentioned in Knock Knock: New Music! back on Monday, that 2/18/1998 was the day Robert Smith of The Cure turned into a giant moth and battled a mechanical-Godzilla version of Barbra Streisand in Season One of South Park. That was Episode-12: "Mecha-Streisand." Near the end of the epsiode Kyle Br
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Kristen Eck
- Feb 19, 2018
- 2 min
Knock Knock: New Music! 2/19/2018
Hi there and welcome to a new week! Lots of stuff going-on in music history this week. It started on Sunday Feb. 18th with the 20th-Anniversary of an epic-battle between Robert Smith from The Cure and Barbra Streisand. There's loads else to remember this week, but let's first get to the NEW music! Click on the VIDEO above to start this week's YouTube playlist. London band, Django Django is first-up today with a new single and video off their third studio album, "Marble Skie
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Kristen Eck
- Feb 12, 2018
- 2 min
Knock Knock: New Music! 2/12/2018
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
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Kristen Eck
- Feb 5, 2018
- 2 min
Knock Knock: New Music! 2/5/2018
Hello there and welcome to another edition of Knock Knock: New Music! Hopefully, you have the day off and are not too hungover or stuffed following last night's Superbowl. Now that football is in the rearview mirror until next September, I'm ready to focus on the Celtics & Bruins. The Red Sox are also not far-off... I just noticed in checking this year's schedule that Spring Training games for the Sox begin in February and the regular season opens early at the end of March.
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Kristen Eck
- Feb 2, 2018
- 2 min
Happy Groundhog Day!
Here we are... Halfway between the Winter Solstice and the first day of Spring: Groundhog Day. I'd like to take a moment to thank everyone who has stopped by and visited the website and my YouTube channel since things got started last month! I'm very much looking forward to a great year of new music and I'll be unveiling some additional features in the weeks and months ahead! So if you missed the YouTube presentations for January's episodes of Knock Knock: New Music! Here ar
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Kristen Eck
- Jan 29, 2018
- 2 min
Knock Knock: New Music! Week-3
Hello and welcome to Week-3 of Knock Knock: New Music! I'm so happy you've stopped by for a visit. Just to get you up to speed, this is a weekly YouTube playlist. Every Monday I'll pop-in with a couple new music videos to tell you about... Just keep watching after I'm done blabbing-away to check-out the songs. No time right now? No problem! Just click "save" on the playlist in YouTube and come back & watch when you have a minute. Of course, if you like the tunes, you're all
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Kristen Eck
- Jan 26, 2018
- 2 min
Friday! Friday!
Hey everybody! Welcome to the verge of the weekend. I hope you enjoyed Week-2 of Knock Knock: New Music! If you haven't checked that out yet, there are some great new songs from Superorganism and Kimbra waiting for your headphones to fire-up. Kimbra opens her world tour this Sunday at the Paradise Rock Club in Boston. I can't wait to see that! Kimbra Photo Credit: Micaiah Carter (Courtesy of Warner Brothers) Fridays are usually a big release day for the music industry. T
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Kristen Eck
- Jan 22, 2018
- 1 min
Knock Knock: New Music! Week-2
Hello again and welcome to Week-2 of "Knock Knock: New Music!" First things first: Thank you so much to everyone, who stopped-by and had a look around on my new website last week! Thank you, as well to everyone who subscribed to my YouTube channel... That means the world to me that you're interested in new music like I am ! If you're a little unsure of exatly what's going on here, "Knock Knock: New Music!" is a weekly YouTube playlist. Click "PLAY" above and you'll see a vi
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Kristen Eck
- Jan 15, 2018
- 1 min
Welcome to "I Listen with Kristen!"
Hi everyone and welcome to my new project, "I Listen with Kristen!" My new website and YouTube channel will focus on some of my favorite things, not the least of which is music! Music has been a constant companion of mine since I was four years old and commandeered my parent's transistor radio. Alternative Rock is definitely my favorite, but I run into many interesting songs that swerve off into other genres. This project gives me the opportunity to share some of those tu
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