It was time. Way overdue, actually. More stuff to come in the future. 🙂

Here is what I played this week on the Taste the Floor Show: Joy Division: No Love Lost (Substance) Grandpaboy/Paul Westerberg: No Matter What You Say (Dead Man Shake) Lou Reed: No Money Down (Mistrial) Annie Lennox: No More “I Love You’s” The Moody Blues: No More Lies Fear: No More Nothing...

Here is what I played this week on the Taste the Floor Show: The Fall: No Bulbs 3 (The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall) Lou Reed: No Chance (Magic and Loss) Sebastian Blanck featuring Hannah Cohen: No Choice (Convince Me) Echo & the Bunnymen: No Dark Things (Heaven Up Here)...

Here is what I played this week on the Taste the Floor Show: Frankie Forman: Steel Bound Soul (Lady) Mazzy Star: Still (Still EP) Soccer Mom: Skinned Knees (For Young Hearts) Dubstar: You Were Never in Love Brazilian Girls: Impromptu (Let’s Make Love) Esme Patterson: If I Kingsbury: All Gone...

Here’s the latest playlist from the Taste the Floor Show: Our Girl: In My Head Mazzy Star: That Way Again (Still EP) Frankie Forman: Lady (Lady) Phia: It’s You (Paperbird EP) We Cut Corners: The Specialist Liz Phair: Johnny Feelgood (whitechocolatespaceegg) Iggy Pop: Cold Metal...

Here’s what I played this week on The Taste the Floor Show: Billy Idol: Hot In The City (s/t) The Cure: Hot Hot Hot (Mixed Up) Bananarama: Cruel Summer Hedge Fund: Hot & Lonely Cheap Trick: Hot Love The Rolling Stones: Hot Stuff (Black and Blue) The Blue Nile: Heatwave (A Walk...

Here’s this week’s playlist on the Taste the Floor Show: The Pretenders: Night in My Veins (Last of the Independents) The Cure: A Night Like This (The Head on the Door) Tacocat: Night Swimming (Lost Time) Gary Numan: Night Talking (Dance) Dean Martin: Night Train to Memphis The...

Here’s this week’s playlist on the Taste the Floor Show: Jessicka: Penniless Fools Loose Tooth: Keep On CAPPA: Tension The Candescents: Boyfriend From Scratch: Type Mazzy Star: Quiet, The Winter Harbor (Still) Mazzy Star: Fade Into You (So Tonight That I Might See) Dubstar: Waltz...

I was not the only one who saw the news on Wednesday that the Concord Monitor would be building a new printing press in Penacook, at the Rivco building, and thought, “Hmm, interesting …” It would appear that while the report I put together at Patch back in March was not 100...

Here’s this week’s playlist on the Taste the Floor Show: INXS: New Sensation (Kick) TORRES: New Skin (Sprinter) Johnny Marr: New Town Velocity (The Messenger) Blur: New World Towers (The Magic Whip) Richard Ashcroft: New York (Alone with Everybody) U2: New York (All That You Can’t...

This week on the Taste the Floor Show, I played the following: Juliana Hatfield: A Little More Love (Juliana Hatfield Does Olivia Newton-John) Kate Nash: Karakoe Kiss (Yesterday Was Forever) Gladshot: Hotel Room (These Are Vitamins) Anna Klein: Back of Your Mind (These Days) Wild Child: Break...

This week on the Taste the Floor Show, I played the following: Desperate Journalist: About You (You Get Used to It EP) Kate Tucker: Devil Think Twice (Practical Sadness) The Aces: Waiting For You (When My Heart Felt Volcanic) Steffany Gretzinger: Dust (Blackout) Fenne Lily: Brother (On Hold)...

Here’s what I played this week on The Taste the Floor Show: BONZIE: Fading Out (Zone on Nine) Belle Adair: Pushing the Stone (Tuscumbia) Kate Tucker: When We Were Young (Practical Sadness) Eleanor Friedberger: Are We Good? (Rebound) Desperate Journalist: It Gets Better (You Get Used To...

Here’s this week’s playlist. Thanks for tuning in! Tim Burgess: Inspired Again Hey Ocean!: The Feels (The Hurt of Happiness) Kris Kristofferson: Bird On A Wire (Live at The Bottom Line) Belly: Heartstrings (DOVE) Neil Young: The Needle And The Damage Done (Harvest) The Rolling...

Here’s what I played this week on the Taste the Floor Show: Tanners: Holy Water Tim Burgess: Clutching Insignificance (As I Was Now) Courtney Barnett: Pickles from the Jar Hey Ocean!: Just Enough (The Hurt of Happiness) Belly: Army of Clay (DOVE) BONZIE: Everybody Wants To (Zone on...

Here’s the latest playlist from this week’s Taste the Floor Show: Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Mystery Girl (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) INXS: Mystify Me (Kick) Bananarama: Na Na Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye) The Brian Jonestown Massacre: Nailing Honey to the Bee DEV: Naked (The Night The Sun Came Up) The...

The New England Newspaper And Press Association is changing the name of its 1st Amendment Award after revelations that the man whose name it honors lied about his World War II record. The Morley L. Piper First Amendment Award will be renamed, the org announced on April 26, 2018, after Piper...

Here’s what I played this week: Duran Duran: My Own Way (Rio) The Knack: My Sharona (Get the Knack) The Moody Blues: My Song (Every Good Boy Deserves Favour) The Psychedelic Furs: My Time (Mirror Moves) The Cautions: My Turn Now (The Cautions EP) Black Flag: My War (My War) Frank...

This week, on the Taste the Floor Show, I played this: The Aces: Stay (When My Heart Felt Volcanic) The Aces: Stuck (album version) Katie Herzig: Feel Alive (Moment of Bliss) Fenne Lily: Car Park (On Hold) Thurston Moore: Panik (MX Liberty EP) Juliana Hatfield: Have You Never Been Mellow...

So this was my Friday … I can now announce that I’m the director of communications of the New Hampshire Department of Education. I’m very excited about this new opportunity and life change. It was a great first day and everyone was really awesome.

Here’s what I played this week on The Taste The Floor Show: Wilco: My Darling (Summerteeth) The Style Council: My Ever Changing Moods (12-inch version) The Who: My Generation Lucius: My Heart Got Caught on Your Sleeve (Good Grief Deluxe) The Mamas & the Papas: My Heart Stood Still...

I went away for a quick trip during the Easter Weekend. Here’s a short video clip:

For most of my years, I knew, or realized, that I wouldn’t win a Pulitzer Prize during my media careers. I just wasn’t that kind of journalist. Yes, I’ve won a slew of a awards; I have a wall full of them. But deep down, I’m a “chop-shop” local journalist...

Here are the songs I played this week on The Taste the Floor Show: TORRES: Bad Baby Pie (Three Futures) Loud Forest: Wake Up (single) Linn Koch Emery: Come Back (single) Linn Koch Emery: Bby Nevermind (Boys EP) Gladshot: Broken Colors (These Are Vitamins) Annexe the Moon: 1,000 Miles from...

Here are the songs I played on The Taste the Floor Show for March 28, 2018: Jane’s Addiction: Mountain Song (Nothing’s Shocking) The Curtain Society: Mouth Without (Life Is Long, Still) The Cars: Moving In Stereo (The Cars) The Flaming Lips: Mr. Ambulance Driver (At War with the Mystics) The...

Here’s what I played this week on The Taste the Floor Show: Loud Forest: Out Of My Head (single) Gladshot: In the Sun (These Are Vitamins) Blondfire: Hide and Seek (Where the Kids Are EP) TORRES: Righteous Woman (Three Futures) Beauty Sleep: All In (single) Deidre & the Dark: Tell...

Here’s what I played this week on The Taste the Floor Show: Roxy Music: More Than This (Avalon) Roxy Music: The Main Thing (Avalon) Andrea True Connection: More, More, More (single) Oasis: Morning Glory (What’s the Story …) Echo & the Bunnymen: Morning Sun (What Are You Going To Do...

Here’s what I played this week on The Taste the Floor Show: Torres: Moon & Back (TORRES) Van Morrison: Moondance (Moondance) Wire Train: Moonlight Dream (Wire Train) The Doors: Moonlight Drive (Strange Days) Isaac Hayes: Moonlight Lovin’-Menage a Trois (Out of the Ghetto: The...

Here is a bunch of stuff I played this week on The Taste the Floor Show: Gladshot: Mellow Dramatic Men (These Are Vitamins) Hey Ocean!: The Hurt of Happiness (single) Annexe The Moon: Full Stop (single) Loud Forest: Level Ground (single) Loud Forest: Drag Me/Don’t Drag Me (Loud Forest) Middle...

Here’s what I played this week: Foolify: Summer Song (Foolify EP) Dream Wife: Taste (Dream Wife) Luby Sparks: Sparks (Luby Sparks) Rhinos Are People Too: Lust (single) Mia Dyson: Fool (single) Sunshine & The Rain: So Far So Close (In the Darkness of My Light) Skaia: I Play With...