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  • #smarchvinylchallenge

    Celebrating the second anniversary of my very first participation year in @brandudesrecordvault’s seemingly annual #smarchvinylchallenge. Day 1-Pulling myself from the bowels of what I think might’ve been norovirus to provide humble submission to @brandudesrecordvault#smarchvinylchallenge Today’s prompt… Read more

  • Vintage Vinyl Holidays

    Everyone posting their Album of the Year and I’m over here spinning Kenny Rogers’ first Christmas album like it’s 1981. And while I’m not sure it was an Album of the Year juggernaut then, it… Read more

  • Hitting Pause.

    Off taking care of life and will be back soon. If you’re from a show/festival needing coverage of your event, thank you so much for inquiring. Please reach out via email kim@siliconeandvinyl.com and I will… Read more

  • We Had An All Night Revival w/ Zach Bryan

    A perfect square stage set, with lights cut, save a lonely spotlight. The reverb of an early Kings of Leon song echoed in the background while Zach Bryan and his Highway Boys settled in, facing… Read more

  • Quittin’ Time Has Only Just Begun

    Belated review of American Heartbreak by Zach Bryan, along with related commentary of his other work. Preview for Quittin Time Tour coming to Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, WI, on March 20th, 2024. Read more

  • Day 31: #fallvinylhealing The Album to Define You

    There were big plans for Day 31 #fallvinylhealing to showcase an album that is quintessentially you. I was planning to run a comb thru my ratty ass hair, maybe fix my face up a little, give my… Read more

  • Day 30: #fallvinylhealing Album for Self-Care

    I’ve been leaving breadcrumbs for the final #fallvinylhealing post tomorrow, yet I couldn’t help myself today for Day 30. It’s sincerely what has been on today and is helping to alleviate the Muuundays and, in turn, take… Read more

  • Warren Zevon is the Love of My Life: Probably, Part I

    There are artists, much like people, who grace your life with their presence, and it feels so poignant you wonder how you’ve existed in the world without knowing them, their soul, and the fruits of… Read more

  • It’s Pert Near Quittin’ Time

    Finally got it. 🖤 Read more

  • Do You Know Marc Ridge?

    You should. He was born and grown from Lafayette, IN, and captures a gritty rural sound within stories reminiscent of classic country-folk-style roots. There’s a freshness to his acoustics and a richness to the histories… Read more

  • HIM-Razorblade Romance

    I recently took this death metal pop pink skater classic (released in ’99, if you can believe it!) for a virginal turn on the shit spinner. I love this one. It’s reminiscent of college in… Read more

  • Unlimited Love

    It’s Leap Day, and eight years ago my heart felt an explosion of the most Unlimited Love I’ve ever experienced, when my daughter made her grand entrance to earthside existence after over two extra weeks… Read more

  • The Commonality of Alice Cooper and Laverne & Shirley

    Is there one? (You know this one…) “Why, yes, Pete, there is.” In Alice-speak, it would be Milly-wah-kay, which is Algonquin for “the good land.” (If you know, not only do you, indeed, know, but… Read more

  • Turner Records Jazz Haul

    Thanks, Clay. Read more

  • Tyler Keith & the Apostles: Hell to Pay

    There may be hell to pay, but Tyler Keith has no debts with the music industry as he’s provided us dividends through rich contributions to evolved and diverse enmeshed genres, haunting the Americana underground for… Read more

  • The -cation of California in 1999

    PorcelainDo you carry the moon in your womb?Someone said that you’re fading too soonDrifting and floating and fading awayPorcelainAre you wasting away in your skin?Are you missing the love of your kin?Nodding and melting and… Read more

  • The 12 Bar Blues

    I was talking with a buddy the other day. He can’t hear shit anymore and went completely deaf late in his teens, but we love to talk about 90s-era alt and rock. Dude would be… Read more

  • Guess My Era

    It seems folks are adopting an era of sorts and making a whole personality from it. I don’t know what you’d call this one, it isn’t like “Fab Fit-Goth Girl Winter-Pick Me-Target Run Bitch-Starbies Baddie”… Read more

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