Category: Music
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Post #151: Listen to a FREE Audiobook Sample
Click HERE to listen to Track 1 of Blowin’ My Mind Like a Summer Breeze for FREE! I love audiobooks. The immersive experience they provide, especially when in the company of a good narrator, creates a literary journey that’s second to none. I struggled for years to get through Moby…
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Post #149: Why is My Book Set in 1995?
First off, have you pre-ordered Blowin’ My Mind Like a Summer Breeze yet? Click HERE to pre-order your copy now–thank you! Also remember to add it on Goodreads HERE! Now, to the question around which today’s post circles: Why is my book about a teenage musician named Rainey Cobb set in 1995 instead of today?…
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Post #134: Concert Etiquette au Centre Bell.
So, my wife and I ventured up to Montreal last weekend to see John Mayer at the Bell Center. Mayer shredded, wailed, crooned, and serenaded us at one point with a fake Japanese garden projected behind him while he sang songs solo acoustic. It was a great show, featuring Mayer’s…
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Post #131: A Podcast for Your Pleasure
So, yes, I haven’t written a new post in an embarrassingly long time. It’s not because I don’t love you. Getting an MFA and starting a new podcast has kept me sadly away from this platform, and from all of you fine people. I did want to let you know,…
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Post #118: Good For What Ails You
A few weekends back my lady and I jumped in the car after work on Friday and took in Phish’s two night stand in Worcester, MA at the DCU Center. I’ve never seen the band there, but the room goes back a ways in Phish lore and is said to…
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Post #90: Control
I can’t deny I’ve thought about that moment many times. December 8th, 1980. John Lennon had just come back from the recording studio, had just emerged from his limo and was walking through the arched doorway of the Dakota building, an arm full of cassettes, when Mark David Chapman emerged…
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Post #68: Fallen Idols? Not even close.
Out of nowhere a couple days ago I found out that one of my favorite rock bands, the criminally underrated and barely known Canadian quartet Sloan, were making a stop at Higher Ground here in Burlington and last night I drove over and caught the show. There’s something utterly bizarre…
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Post #53: Pre-Order Purgatory
I have to vent for a minute about the sudden (or so it seems to me) availability to pre-order forthcoming whatever. Books, music, movies. You can buy anything in advance these days. Let’s say you do some searching to see what’s new out there. Whatever purveyor you’ve searched (iTunes, Amazon,…
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Post #42: So Long Old Friend
I’m sure my parents played records by The Band when I was growing up. They must have. There was John Denver and America and Joni Mitchell and The Beatles and Neil Young and Elton John. There was Cat Stevens and Roberta Flack and Pink Floyd and The Rolling Stones. I…
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Post #31: Lush Life
Billy Strayhorn’s “Lush Life” is one of my very favorite songs. Melancholy and haunting, full of experience and regret and a kind of upbeat sadness. Or, if not upbeat, at least still standing. Plus when’s the last time you heard a song that had a line like “Where one…
Benjamin Roesch 