We're in the big-hitters of the Top-10 with Nick Cave, Nine Inch Nails, Angel Olsen, The Pixies, Floating Points, and The Cure!

Big things are afoot this time around on Mixed-Up Memories! One of the giant records in alternative rock just celebrated its 30th anniversary a few days ago. I’m talking about The Cure’s 8th studio album, “Disintegration.” By 1988 The Cure had drifted-away from the gothic-rock sound that marked their first three albums to more pop-oriented songs. That won them legions of fans, but band leader Robert Smith was 29 and staring mid-life in the face. He was overwhelmed by the tho

Once again it's April and time to get ready for Record Store Day! The idea of a special holiday was hatched by a Bull Moose Records employee over 12-years ago and was intended to get people excited about the idea of visiting their local independent record shop. You really don't have to convince me to do that. Any rainy weekend afternoon is more than good enough reason to spend a few hours flipping through the stacks of vinyl, looking for gems. Record Store Day 2019 happens

Happy National Chocolate Day! We certainly can't have Halloween without chocolate, so the timing of this holiday is fortuitous. Chocolate has its origins in the seed (or bean) of the Theobrama Cacao tree. Like pumpkins (which we've discussed a couple times this month,) the tree and its seeds were first cultivated by our neighbors to the South in Mexico, Central America, and South America. The first record of Europeans learning of cacao came during a meeting of Spanish explor

Hello and welcome to another edition of Knock Knock: New Music! I'm your host, Kristen Eck. Record Store Day was Saturday and I had a great time visiting one of my my favorite old haunts: Spinnaker Records in Hyannis. I got a hold of the new Florence + The Machine single I was talking about last week and the double-picture-disc repressing of The Cure’s 1990 “Mixed Up” album. My first artist this week is Bodega. They're a five-piece post-punk band out of Brooklyn, New York. T

Hello again, I'm Kristen Eck and welcome to for Fun-4-Friday! Obviously tomorrow is Saturday. But it's not just any Saturday, it's Record Store Day! Celebrated in the U.S. and 10 other countries on the third Saturday in April, this holiday celebrates the independent record store. It was first conceived in 2007. 2018 is the 10th year there have been special releases made for the day. Do you know what the world's first record store was? It was a little shop called Spiller's

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