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DE LA SOUL IS ALIVE

by Steve Seidel | Mar 6, 2023 | Uncategorized | 0 |

Happy De La Weekend™️ to those who celebrate! It is indeed a joyous occasion – after many years, De La Soul’s classic albums are now finally on streaming services. It is a long and winding tale of underhanded music industry dealings, record company bankruptcy, and hard to clear music samples that will probably somehow be made into a limited series on Netflix. It is a homecoming of sorts for any veteran fan of rap music. As for my own appreciation of De La, let’s go back to the beginning.

Maximum Volume: Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

by Steve Seidel | Jan 16, 2023 | Uncategorized | 0 |

A reoccurring series where your favorite writer listens to an album at Maximum Volume™️ – natch – and writes some random shit about it. A wise predecessor to the Sex Pistols once sang: But when you talk about...

Maximum Volume: Alvvays, Blue Rev

by Steve Seidel | Jan 3, 2023 | Uncategorized | 0 |

A reoccurring series where your favorite writer listens to an album at Maximum Volume™️ – natch – and writes some random shit about it. It happens every year – the best of album lists come out from the...

The Dadrock Year In Music: 2022

by Steve Seidel | Dec 24, 2022 | Uncategorized | 0 |

2022 was a kick ass year for music. It seemed like a backlog of music conceived and recorded during the OG Pandemic was released in a deluge this year. A musical hurricane of tunes where the levees (our Spotify accounts) could...

Maximum Volume: Neil Young, Harvest

by Steve Seidel | Dec 9, 2022 | Uncategorized | 0 |

A reoccurring series where your favorite writer listens to an album at Maximum Volume™, and writes some random shit about it. Went to see Harvest Time, a documentary about the making of Neil Young’s 1972 epic Harvest. Saw...

Music From My Dad(rock)

by Steve Seidel | Oct 28, 2022 | Uncategorized | 0 |

The DJ Dyllie Dally Origin Story: Last year my daughter took an Intro to Radio class at UC Santa Cruz, which allowed her to pitch and produce/host her own show. Her idea: “Music From My Dad”, a weekly themed show...

Album O’ The Day: Danger Mouse, The Grey Album

by Steve Seidel | Oct 21, 2022 | Uncategorized | 0 |

The other day, my son and I were driving to his baseball hitting session at Valley College. He was behind the wheel, rolling with his learner’s permit, and as he is wont to do, listening to some rapper that started or ended...

Album O’ The Day: Pink Floyd, The Wall

by Steve Seidel | Sep 23, 2022 | Uncategorized | 0 |

I recently finished watching season two of Russian Doll. Enjoyed it overall, largely on the strength of the idiosyncratic performance of fellow member of the tribe Natasha Lyonne. Though if I’m being honest, I’m not sure what...

Album O’ The Week: Kendrick Lamar, Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers

by Steve Seidel | Sep 15, 2022 | Uncategorized | 0 |

I’m irrationally excited to see Kendrick at the Crypt tonight. I feel like I’m in a bit of a...

Dadrock Travelogue

by Steve Seidel | Jul 8, 2022 | Uncategorized | 0 |

Travel truisms from the Great White North Took the Missus (Momrock?) up to Canada for a quick vacation last week. Some things we learned along the way Truism 1: Flying Is Taking The Bus Back in the day, flying was glamorous. ...

Confessions Of A Middle Aged (Frugal) Sneaker Head

by Steve Seidel | Apr 22, 2022 | Uncategorized | 0 |

We all have that product that receives “fuck I gotta get that” status. Something you don’t necessarily need, but you want it so bad it becomes a necessity.

My Son’s Zoom Mitzvah

by Steve Seidel | Apr 7, 2022 | Uncategorized | 0 |

We’ve all had to make profound adjustments to our lifestyles to flatten the COVID-19 curve. For my son, his sacrifice proved to be most unusual.

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