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It's only fair that once Rob took his stab at his favorite albums of the year, that JP got to have his say as well. So here, with utmost brevity, are Jelton Peevis Moser's top 5 albums of 2023, in no particular order.   DAVE BARNES: Feather…

It's that time of year where we start to reflect, and because everything must be ranked and quantified (and I just want to be able to remember this stuff later), here are my Top Five albums and top songs of 2023, in no particular order. (Because cul…

From the "Things I Didn't Expect to be Sharing This Week" file... I got an email yesterday, the sender line of which said Dolly Parton. I'm not on Dolly's email list, so I thought it a little odd. Then I saw the subject line: "LOVELY TAGGED CONTENT…

I've never dreamed of a warm-weather Christmas. Living in east and central Tennessee, our holiday seasons tend to be more of the Amy Grant variety, if you follow. But the new Christmas album from rock's sunny, SoCal evangelists Switchfoot has …

I want to preface this by saying, right upfront: unlike my meeting with Paul McCartney, the following account 100% actually happened. #IWillNeverTellALie Last night I, along with JP and our wives, had the absolute pleasure of attending the one-nigh…

It's not braggadocious of me to say that I'm a very good musician. I'm humble, but I'm not an idiot. If you have listened to the show, you know that one of my specialties is music theory--that is the breakdown of the musical inner workings of a son…

Doo-wop era Billy Joel doesn't get catchier than "Uptown Girl." It's a world-class pop record among world-class pop records—an eminently singable underdog love story. What could be more lovable? Today we're gonna break down some of the musi…

There's been a song stuck in my head for weeks now. It's on a loop, and every day that I think I might have forgotten about it, it comes roaring back.  It's the debut single by a new supergroup, Generation Radio: "Why Are You Calling Me Now?" …

Last night I found myself in NYC, at an off-broadway performance of Love Never Dies, the less-famous sequel to my favorite musical of all time, The Phantom of the Opera. I'd seen it before in Atlanta, and though my reception to the original album w…

Rob is the blog creating/gauntlet issuing/list oracle...But at the suggestion that I take the lead on one, LET'S DO THIS.    Ground Rules- Pretty Much Stated in Subject Line...Thanks Emily Drake for issuing this challenge and thanks for …