Neil Rajala
NEW ALBUMS WORTH A SPIN – Marching forward.
If you need any convincing that women are having an impressive commercial impact on the music industry these days all you have to do is...
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Neil Rajala
- Mar 22, 2022
- 9 min
Wherefore art thou, rock music?
Last Friday saw some decent new album releases and I enjoyed giving several of them a listen, as always. So far, I’m not sure if any of...
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Neil Rajala
- Mar 17, 2022
- 6 min
Thinking Out Loud: Short Takes on Recent Stuff.
Not everything that springs to mind about the current music scene, or this blog, needs a full post on its own. Every once in a while,...
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Neil Rajala
- Mar 14, 2022
- 7 min
NEW ALBUMS WORTH A SPIN – Three recent gems.
New releases are in full swing now, racing along in pre-pandemic numbers. Bands are touring again, so they want their records out. Some...
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Neil Rajala
- Mar 9, 2022
- 14 min
TAMING THE BEAST: 10 Favorite Linda Ronstadt Albums
Those of you who read these posts or know me personally are aware that I have a decent-sized vinyl record collection that I cherish. I’ve...
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Neil Rajala
- Feb 28, 2022
- 5 min
NEW ALBUMS WORTH A SPIN – A roundup from Feb. 25, 2022
The music biz survived the holidays, weathered the post-holiday hangovers, and is back on track releasing a significant number of new...
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Neil Rajala
- Feb 23, 2022
- 10 min
Record Store Day releases for 2022 - The Good, the Bad and the WTF?
This year marks the 15th anniversary of Record Store Day, a joint promotion between record labels and independent record stores around...
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Neil Rajala
- Feb 17, 2022
- 4 min
DIAMONDS IN THE MINE: A pair of outstanding modern gospel records.
Mick Jagger once famously sang “I need a shot of salvation, baby / once in a while.” Apparently, that’s true even for a heathen like me,...
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Neil Rajala
- Feb 15, 2022
- 10 min
TAMING THE BEAST: 11 favorite David Bowie albums
Bowie’s catalog is a tough one to assess over the long haul. He continued to make excellent albums up until his death in 2016, but from...
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Neil Rajala
- Feb 12, 2022
- 1 min
A Little Weekend Fun
I'm working on a long-ish Bowie piece for my next post, but in the meantime here's a little graphic design fun. I took some iconic album...
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Neil Rajala
- Feb 7, 2022
- 3 min
QUICK TAKES: My Current Playlist
New releases are finally starting to roll out in earnest in 2022 and a few have been stuck in my personal rotation since they arrived....
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Neil Rajala
- Feb 4, 2022
- 5 min
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Nominees – yea or nay?
The nominees for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2022 were just announced (and the crowd goes wild!). How the final inductees are...
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Neil Rajala
- Feb 1, 2022
- 7 min
POST TITLE: A handful of great greatest hits albums
Yeah, that was always going to be an awkward-sounding title. Greatest hits collections are a genre unto themselves, really. They’re...
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Neil Rajala
- Jan 24, 2022
- 10 min
TAMING THE BEAST: 10 favorite Bob Dylan albums
Some of my favorite artists are even older than me and have been putting out records for a very long time. I was still a kid when I...
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Neil Rajala
- Jan 17, 2022
- 4 min
A New (Old) Album Worth a Spin – Some excellent long-lost Bowie.
New releases are finally, slowly, starting to appear in 2022. I'm liking the new Elvis Costello and may visit that one soon, and “Dodging...
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Neil Rajala
- Jan 14, 2022
- 11 min
What Happened Next? – Paul McCartney, with and without Wings
I can hear you now - “What’s Paul McCartney doing in this series?” Certainly, a former Beatle never left the public consciousness? It’s...
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Neil Rajala
- Jan 11, 2022
- 5 min
DIAMONDS IN THE MINE – A pair of amazing female voices.
Most of the time you have to dig to find the killer albums and artists that don’t casually cross your path on the radio, the internet, or...
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Neil Rajala
- Jan 8, 2022
- 3 min
My Vinyl Collection Index (with apologies to Harper’s)
"Mathematics is the music of reason."...James Joseph Sylvester I do love to play around with numbers, almost as much as I enjoy playing...
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Neil Rajala
- Jan 5, 2022
- 9 min
New Music, Old Ears – What's Progressive Pop?
Music genres are becoming ever more fluid in this age of digital streaming. There was a time I could have rattled off the major genres...
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Neil Rajala
- Jan 3, 2022
- 5 min
Tiptoe through the bootlegs, with me.
This post is a response to the late-2021 news about Eric Clapton being a giant wanker, sort of. The original story was that a woman...
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