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Eviscerate Your Memory: R.E.M.'s Green
 Posted
6/21/2011 8:01:00 PM
Iconic 1988 Warner Brothers promo shot for the release of Green.
"This is my mistake,
Let me make it good,
I raised the wall,
and I will be the one to knock it down."
There are a lot of R.E.M. fans, myself included, who will tell you Green is on their short list of favorites, if not their favorite R.E.M. album period. It's certainly one of my favorite albums of all time, and like the best R.E.M. albums, reminds me of the exact moment, time, and place when I first heard and came to love these songs, absorbing them like a musical sponge.
Despite the title Green, the album is known for its orange-brown cover art, which reflected the season the album was released in: fall. And you can almost smell the bygone hissing of summer lawns and autumn Appalachian mysticism rising out of these tracks like the changing colors ...
Gearing Up for Coachella
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4/11/2011 3:10:00 PM
As we gear up for this year's Coachella, the good programming news is the Friday Night Rock and Roll Happy Hour will be happening as usual on Friday evening, right around 7:00 from the FM 94/9 Coachella Gilded Palace of Sin. While Ken and the Stone Brewing Co. crowd won't be able to join us at our undisclosed location, I have it on good authority Jeremy and Garett are making growler runs on their way to the Coachella Valley. Also, while we're on the subject of alcohol, I'll be bringing along my personal bottle of Ballast Point Old Grove Gin (which I missed out on last week but got to enjoy on a previous installment), so the broadcast does run the risk of becoming a savage, embarrassingly sloppy experience. However, being the professionals we are, we'll keep it marginally obnoxious and abstain from inside jokes. I hate that stuff.
I've ...
Classic Songs You Don't Have On Your iPod
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2/8/2011 2:41:00 PM
 By Tommy Hough
I grew up with albums. As in 12-inch long players on vinyl, with gatefold album sleeves and artwork you could actually see and appreciate without having to get out a magnifying glass or microscope. When cassettes became the favored mode by which to digest popular music, I stuck with my vinyl, as un-hip as it was to do so in 1985. Why? Fidelity. Scratches and all, albums always sounded much better than cassette tapes rolled off at 35 miles per hour at a factory in Taiwan. There was soul to records, of course, but mostly it was about fidelity. If you wanted your albums to last, you home taped them to blank cassettes (my blank cassette of choice was the reliable TDK SA-90) and played them back on your cassette player, thereby perserving your albums. Some of us even kept our most prized or rare albums in plastic sleeves. By the end ...
John Lennon, 1940 - 1980
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12/8/2010 2:02:00 PM
It was 30 years ago today an act of senseless gun violence robbed us of one of rock and roll's singular talents and advocates for peace.
Today, we remember and acknowledge the debt rock and roll owes John Lennon and The Beatles. The music and songs speak for themselves, though they will never answer the question:
If you remember where you were 30 years ago, it's impossible not to remember the shock of the news.
"He belongs to the ages now."
In the days after December 8th, 1980, there were no answers, only questions, and the realization those questions would never be answered. We would all have to go on knowing John Lennon was no longer a part of this world, that his amazing life was finite and had come to a violent, undeserved and untimely end.
While we would continue to grow and experience new things, John Lennon no ...
Tommy's Election Day Picks
Posted
10/31/2010 2:34:00 PM
"If you don't vote, don't bitch." - Steve Earle
Curious about Tommy's picks for the 2010 midterm elections? You've come to the right place.
Click HERE to be taken to the official 2010 Treehuggers International Voter's Guide, featuring Tommy's picks for the November 2nd, 2010 general election, including official Treehuggers International endorsements, candidate and proposition picks, essays on races, and links to additional voter information. Tommy's picks via Treehuggers International do not necessarily represent those of Lincoln Financial Media or FM 94/9, and are purely his own choices.
Polls open at 7:00 am and close at 8:00 pm, Tuesday November 2nd.
For a complete list of state elections offices, from Alameda to Yuba counties, please click HERE.
California State Races
Governor: Jerry Brown * (listed as Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown)
Lieutenant Governor: Gavin Newsom
Secretary of State: Debra Bowen
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Save the La Jolla Seals! Restore the Rope Barrier!
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9/1/2010 6:06:00 PM
Everyone knows the plight of the La Jolla seals is important to me and is one of the key conservation stories in San Diego, but in case you've missed it, this summer has been especially tough for our seal friends at the Children's Pool.
Things were actually looking up earlier this year, when the city council voted to increase seal protection and close the beach during pupping season. Unfortunately, shortly afterwards, the rope barrier which keeps the public at a safe distance was taken down, and Mayor Sanders, for whatever reason, has refused to put it back.
So this summer has seen the Children's Pool overrun with people with no rope to even stop someone for a moment from approaching the seals. The result has been bedlam. While most people genuinely just want to look at the seals, they don't realize approaching them too closely forces the seals into the water, thereby tiring them after ...
Full Listing of San Diego County Hands Across the Sand Events
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6/25/2010 12:48:00 PM
What to do at a Hands Across the Sand event:
STEP 1 - Go to one of the gatherings listed below at 11:00 am for one hour, rain or shine.
STEP 2 - Join hands for 15 minutes at 12:00 noon forming lines in the sand against oil drilling in our coastal waters.
STEP 3 - Leave only your footprints.
CARDIFF BY THE SEA, SAN ELIJO
Roxanne Hughes
Hwy. 101 south of Chesterfield Dr. on the south side of the San Elijo ...
Philip Smith Coup d'etat
Posted
6/24/2010 7:26:00 PM
Phil and Mitch at the final Stone Brewing "Beer Guys" segment.
Philip Smith
Former Distribution Manager (King) at Stone Brewing
Moving home to Seattle, we'll miss you pal!
Peter Tosh - "You Can't Blame the Youth" (1973)
Johnny Cash and Joe Strummer - "Redemption Song" (2003)
The Hold Steady - "Constructive Summer" (2008)
Warren Zevon - "Lawyers Guns and Money" (1978)
ZZ Top - "Waitin' for the Bus / Jesus Just Left Chicago" (1973)
Beastie Boys - "Something's Got to Give" (1992)
Rage Against the Machine (live in Dusseldorf) - "Ghost of Tom Joad" (2000)
The Replacements - "Alex Chilton" (1987)
Pearl Jam - "Yellow Ledbetter" (1992)
Talking Heads - "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)" (1983)
Like what you hear? Download Phil's whole Coup d'etat HERE (with no commercials).
Tommy's Picks for June 8th Primary Election
Posted
6/6/2010 9:31:00 PM
Illustration by Shepard Fairey (who also designed the FM 94/9 logo).
"If you don't vote, don't bitch." - Steve Earle
Click HERE to be taken to the Treehuggers International page with Tommy's picks for the June 8th, 2010 primary election.
Tommy's picks do not necessarily represent those of Lincoln Financial Media or FM 94/9, and are purely his own choices.
For a complete list of all statewide candidates and propositions on the June 8th primary ballot, click HERE.
Support Rally for Joseph Diliberti
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6/1/2010 4:28:00 PM
You may have heard me talking about Joseph Diliberti on the air the last couple of weeks.
Joseph is a retired Marine and a Vietnam veteran, and for years he's been living somewhat off the grid in Dehesa, near Granite Hills and Alpine, among the native chaparral and shrubs of our area.
Unfortunately, not long after the Cedar Fire in 2003, San Diego County embarked upon a controversial program trimming "brush," which in many cases, wound up being the very native vegetation found naturally in San Diego County which doesn't burn with the ferocity as the invasive and introduced grasses and palm trees which have come to adorn area homes and businesses. I've covered this phenomena and the benefits of our native shrubbery in conjunction with Rick Halsey and the California Chaparral Institute on several editions of Treehuggers International.
In 2004, the old-growth chaparral on Joseph Diliberti's property was cut ...
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