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Watching the Dems wonderful halftime show in the stadium last night there was a little aside that was fascinating. The starting point was the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have A Dream” speech in Washington DC. Margaret Warner, a PBS… read more >>
As you may know the ARC was the reciepient of one of the best solid rock collections in the USA when Jeep Holland gave us his record collection. Jeep was also the mastermind behind A2 (squared) records our of Ann Arbor (A… read more >>
This just in : Today, 5/22/2008, the N Y Times posts a story on Acrassicauda, the (only?) Iraqi Heavy Metal band, who just happen to be named after a species of black scorpion. There’s a new documentary about them and their love… read more >>
Here are some nice music images from California for all our dedicated disc bloganatii… The ORIGINAL music makin’ Madonna, namesake for the Madonna Inn, US Highway 1, coastal CA. A modern madonna from the conjunto band, Jose Luis Ruelas y Sus Rivales… read more >>
Meanwhile, back in the jungle… Freddie’s really been kicking ass, sorting through mountains of 45s for weeks now. Every once in a while he’ll unearth a comedy single which is my meat! When this beauty bobbed to the surface we had to… read more >>
Few inventions are as useful or as elegantly simple as the “centering device for phonographic records” or put more plainly, the 45 adaptor. We have upwards of 200,000 45s here at the ARChive, and since people often just left them in their… read more >>
Few inventions are as useful or as elegantly simple as the “centering device for phonographic records” or put more plainly, the 45 adaptor. We have upwards of 200,000 45s here at the ARChive, and since people often just left them in their… read more >>
As B., Phreddie, Jon and I turned the corner of White Street on the way to work this morning, we noticed Joe Torre sitting on our stoop. Just sitting there, waiting. When we got close, he stood up, stretched out his hand… read more >>