All Hopped Up Music and Maps: Chapter 4
This playlist accompanies Chapter 4 of my book All Hopped Up and Ready To Go. The Village to the Left of New York describes the birth of an urban folk...
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December 2, 2009
All Hopped Up In Woodstock
Saturday November 7 saw the official launch party for All Hopped Up and Ready To Go: Music from the Streets of New York 1927-77 in my new hometown of Woodstock,...
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December 2, 2009
All Hopped Up and Ready To Review
“Fletcher’s fascinating and fulsome study of half a century in the life of a vast metropolis is as thrillingly head-spinning as the city itself.” Record Collector, UK “The joy here...
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December 2, 2009
Culture Catches Me on MP3
I know iJamming! has been short on features of late and long on self-promotion, but you’ll have to excuse me: I’m researching one book write now, righting another and pro-moating...
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November 5, 2009
All Hopped Up Music and Maps: Chapter 3
This playlist – The Harlem Hit Parade – accompanies Chapter 3 of All Hopped Up and Ready To Go, and deals with the birth of a new form of vocal...
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November 4, 2009
Vegan New York
It turned out that October 25-31st was World Go Vegan Week, which is mildly ironic as I used my time down in New York City last week to deliberately search...
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November 2, 2009
Music for the Weekend: The Raveonettes
No review, not yet. No real comment, not yet. But I fell in love with The Raveonettes‘ new single “Last Dance” and, given that I have the option, decided to...
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October 30, 2009
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