Category Archives: Music

The Long Lost MSTRs of the KRFT

March 17, 2009 – 10:30 am

When I walked out of the Best Buy at the Holyoke Mall at Ingleside on a weekend afternoon in 2001 with a copy of singer Res‘ debut album How I Do I had no idea I’d still be talking about it some seven years later. Yet and still, here I am doing just that. […]

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Even in the Face of “Hardships!,” Blogarhythms Readers “Can’t Lose”

March 12, 2009 – 10:30 am

Every morning when I log on to the internets I’m greeted by a barrage of headlines about skyrocketing foreclosure rates, another record-breaking rise in jobless claims or some bloody killing spree. I know the sort of effect the pathogenic strain of adversity infecting ever-widening swathes of the populace is having on my life on […]

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Listen Within Your Means

March 10, 2009 – 10:30 am

A couple weeks back I buffeted a friend with a hastily-issued remonstration regarding a Facebook status update where she urged people to write President Obama and plead the case for financially strapped college students like herself. I responded to her saying that, if anything, Obama needed to help people who could never even dream […]

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Lips, Sweat and Fake Asian Names

March 5, 2009 – 10:30 am

This morning I woke to a local news story about an aspiring Hip-Hop mogul caught up in a plot involving drugs, guns and kidnapping just a few towns away. While at the local news outlet’s site I noticed they have a new Twitter feed, which I clicked, intending to “follow” it. The first […]

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Norway and Germany “Got That White”

March 3, 2009 – 10:30 am

Sunday into Monday most of the Eastern seaboard was socked with a late Winter storm that local meteorologists were predicting as the “worst of the season.” I don’t know if the system lived up to the hype, but we appear to have received a solid foot here in Western Massachusetts where every sidewalk is […]

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