Moish' Music Blog

Anyone who knows me or follows this blog (and, honestly, is there anyone who follows this blog and doesn't know me?) knows that I'm ...

My son and I take a science fiction/horror film history class. It's taught by local film historian, Keith Crocker. Keith has directed a ...

Last night was the album release party for Bobtown's A History of Ghosts . It was a favorable crowd. I was standing -- I wasn't pl...

Tonight I'm going to the album release party for Bobtown's A History of Ghosts . It's at Hill Country in Midtown Manhattan. I ca...

A friend posted a link on Facebook, asking what was the band that first got me into Rock and Roll. I answered, "Ducks Deluxe." I...

A few months back, I went with my two older kids to see Avenue Q . We thought it was on Broadway, but it was actually Off Broadway; that...

I was thinking about the Captain and Tennille hit, "Do That to Me One More time." Specifically, the two lines, "Do hat to m...

So apparentkly one of the "things" now is Kanye West fans tweeting about how Paul McCartney's career is going to take off now ...

Aargh. I've been ripping my CDs onto my wife's computer, and in so doing I misplaced the case and liner notes for Pink Floyd's W...

So, speaking of Dave Edmunds... I happened to find this little snippet of interview. Dave Edmunds is talking about the song, "Sweet L...

OK. Maybe not the worst. But I give it extra points because I'm such a big Dave Edmunds fan. As far as I can tell, this was from a Bri...

Nearly a month ago I got together with Allan Backer and Charlie Shaw, two local musicians whose work I admire, to discuss the possible produ...

I noticed that the Weekly Standard has this item about Weird Al Yankovic's new album Mandatory Fun and single "Word Crimes."...

By way of background, I should note that I suffer from grammar rage. It annoys me when I hear people say things like "If you can, pleas...

At some point in the last two years, Billy Bremner and Sean Tyla got together and formed a band called "Trouble Boys" after Billy...

I ordered the Dave Edmunds Live at Rockpalast CD. It came today. The fourth and tenth tracks are "Loud Music in Cars" and "T...

Someone sent me a link to an article in vulture.com (which, admittedly, I hadn't heard of) about some unreleased Weird Al Yankovic parod...

A funny thing happened on Amazon. After going to amazon.com, I typed in "Dave Edmunds" just to see if there were any new discs tha...

And speaking of twisted sister. I have no idea what to make of this:

Twisted Sister recently made an appearance on the Today Show (or some other network morning talk show). I don't know what all was involv...

There are several musicians and bands whose works I will buy immediately upon release (or at least soon thereafter). But most of those are r...

I'll admit I was kind of nervous. As time went by Bobtown's Kickstarter campaign was sputtering, and it looked like they wouldn'...

I don't know how to stress this enough. Please go to Kickstarter and pledge your support for Bobtown's new album. I did. And I want ...

So, thanks to my sister I have a very annoying earwig that I can't get rid of. We were reminiscing over old times, and she asked if I ...

I've written about Bobtown before. It's hard to describe them, so I'll just quote their website: Drawing on field hollers, go...

Wreckless Eric's album, The Donovan of Trash , has been rereleased on Fire Records, and Eric a has been touring to support it. I saw h...

As mentioned, a few thoughts regarding Graham Parker. Fair warning, though: it's kind of stream-of-consciousness. I first got interest...

Dolly Parton's single, "Jolene" played at 33 RPM. I find it oddly compelling. In case you're interested for comparison...

Going through some papers, I came across this, from the letters to the editor section of the Ann Arbor News, some time in June of 1988. B...

Last week my wife asked about a couple books that she wanted to get from Amazon. And, of course, I couldn't resist adding a few CDs to...

I've talked a bunch about my songs. Here is a "video" of "Jackpot." I put thwe word video in quotes because it's...

In my last post, I goofed when I wrote out the lyrics to "Be Al." There was a third verse: I live my life, don't ask me wh...

I was r ecently cleaning out my office at work, and came across a bag full of mix discs I made years ago. That was back when I had embraced ...

One of the fun things about going through CDs that I got off Freecycle is when I come across something that I had never heard of, yet really...

I spent most of yesterday moving bricks in the rain. I couldn't help but thinking about songs that mention rain in the title. So if I we...

Until today I had never stopped to think about how poetic is a line from a Creedence song: Have you ever seen the rain Coming down on a ...

In my last post, I wrote a little bit about outsider music, and listed a couple of the big names in the genre -- as if that's not an oxy...

It's kind of hard to define exactly what is outsider music. Certainly it has to do with msuicians and singers who are outside of the m...

I like to listen to music while I'm working. For the most part I can let the music be background, and it makes work more pleasant. Of co...

I don't know much about them, and I'm not sure I want to. But there's a band, Hatebeak, whose lead singer is a parrot.

There are a couple of local musicians I need to talk to to arrange a recording session. Right now I have four demos of four different songs,...

Back in December I was on vacation in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Walking across the plaza, I noticed a street singer. She was playing a small C...