In 2008, my friend Leann asked if I would make some Madonna mixes in honor of her 50th birthday. Leann was planning on hosting a benefit birthday bash at a local bar to try to raise money for some cause that escapes me at the moment.
Happy to…
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The Second Half of My First Madonna MixWhen I originally created Melt Down Mix in 2008, restraint clearly wasn’t part of the equation. The mix clocked in at more than four hours. This may have seemed perfectly reasonable to me at the time. However, it was always much too long for a single set.Years later, …Read More
In 1983, as a high school junior, my part-time gig was at a local record shop. Madonna burst onto the music scene that same year, amplified by the new MTV channel we’d just added to our TV lineup. The era was marked by Reaganomics, while my pare…
In the often capricious world of music, bands come and go, leaving only ephemeral traces. But not Everything But The Girl. Founded in 1982 by Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt, the British duo has always been emblematic of a refined genre that fuses jaz…