October Heat
Many bands are made up of members who all grew up around each other, but occasionally you get a group from such an exotic mix of locales that you wonder how in the hell they ever all found each other....
View ArticleBig Money
There’s no denying that the Aussie band AC/DC is one of the biggest hard rock acts of all time. They’ve been active for over fifty years now, with a catalogue full of songs that just flat out rock....
View ArticleFreddy’s Dead
My Mom was always a horror/slasher movie fan, which means entirely too many films featuring more fake blood than you’ll find at a Kiss/Ozzy Osbourne twinbill concert were on the TV when I was growing...
View ArticleRainy Day Muzak
It’s a very rainy day here at The Nest, so when it my thoughts turned to choosing a song for this week’s Dusty Vinyl Archive, I naturally began combing through the hundreds of songs that mention rain....
View ArticleThe Show’s Over
Remember the days when listening to your favorite FM radio station sometimes treated you to a two-for-one BOGO special? There are some pairs of songs that, to this day, just don’t sound right if they...
View ArticleJimmy Dean
I don’t have a lot of time to ramble, and my survival instinct has got me in a silly mood right now. So let’s meet one of the biggest songs of 1989 that even most die-hard 80’s enthusiasts try to …...
View ArticlePut It Out
I’ve featured the Scottish 80’s vixen Sheena Easton on the Dusty Vinyl Archive before performing one of many big hits from the late 80’s that got torpedoed from pop music consciousness for good....
View ArticleDancing In The Aisles
We interrupt your Dusty Vinyl Archive feature to take a trip back to the old school with our old fool, DJ Scratchy. The Nest is closing out the year by bringing back our original muzak series Mecca...
View ArticleWitchy Woman
All of those “year end” lists coming out at this time conveniently ignore that December exists, so why not the Dusty Vinyl Archive as well? We’ve locked the vault until 2025 and are instead bringing...
View ArticleThis Sick Beat
Once upon a time, December meant that the soundtrack at work was all Xmas all the X-ing time. But the holiday nights rock again, and so does The Nest’s December excursion into Mecca Muzak Mondays! If...
View ArticleRise And Shine
Were you counting Mondays in 2024? Of course you were! And this would be the 53rd Monday of the year, which automatically puts ’24 into consideration for Best Year Ever since you get an extra Monday...
View ArticleAries Rising
It’s a new year, and we’ve put the Mecca muzak back in the clearance aisle for a while to pump out more lost tunes from the Dusty Vinyl Archive, celebrating its ninth anniversary this week! Today we...
View ArticleForgotten Whispers
This week’s featured DVA artist has a name that’s entirely too fitting right now given the way our nice and warm December suddenly turned into the actual winter month of January. It’s a 80’s British...
View ArticleLos Chicos
Ever since the days when The Beatles had teen girls peeing in the aisles, music producers have yearned to recreate that magic with carefully crafted bands full of young men and boys that could win the...
View ArticleAddicted To Earworms
A discussion of the 1980’s MTV inspired era of music wouldn’t be complete without a mention of British rocker Robert Palmer. Palmer has a moderately successful solo career in the early 80’s, became...
View ArticleFirst Job
With the Dusty Vinyl Archive now in its tenth year (give or take a few countdown breaks), it was inevitable that some artist was finally going to have a record pulled from the DVA three times. This...
View ArticlePixie Perfect
The grunge era of the 90’s that made stars out of Kurt Cobain, Eddie Vedder and a lot of other Seattle kids in flannel shirts was largely fueled by the indie rock bands of the 80’s, most of whom...
View ArticleHere’s The Deal
Last Monday, if you can remember back that far, the Dusty Vinyl Archive looked at a late 80’s indie band who reveled in their indie-ness known as The Pixies. I also mentioned bassist Kim Deal, who was...
View ArticleShark Week
Few musicians have managed to carve themselves out such a popular and lucrative niche as the late great Jimmy Buffett did. Buffett’s “island escapism” music called to mind lounging on a tropical beach...
View ArticleBig Trouble
Though hip hop has been around since the 1970’s, it took until the late 80’s before it gained mainstream commercial success… and even longer before a black rap artist would top the charts with a hip...
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