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R.I.P. Todd Snider💧
Another brilliant musician gone too soon.
Nov 16
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Steve Goldberg
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The Cars - Hello! Hello Again!
🙋🏻♂️(Re)Introducing myself and EW&SL to those new, forgetful and everyone in-between. Plus a musical earworm from The Cars 🚘, and a bonus playlist…
Nov 12
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FTA: Billy Idol - Eyes Without A Face
Where Stevie wonders: What if our sense organs were combined?
Oct 23
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TWEET🐣: Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence
All I ever wanted, all I ever needed, is here in my arms
Oct 13
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Catch Me (Now) I’m Falling
A case of "seasonal" earworms leads to an exclusive photo exhibit of canines catching treats (and balls) mid-air.
Sep 29
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TWEET🐥: David Byrne - I Met The Buddha at a Downtown Party
Bringing back the popular THIS WEEK'S EMBEDDED EARWORM TUNE series
Sep 22
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Steve Goldberg
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A Self Called Nowhere: Psychedelia, No-Self, and a Surreal, Rockin' Good Time
Chase Roper from Kiss Me, Song of Blog invited me to write a guest essay on his all-things They Might Be Giants newsletter. I said yes immediately.
Sep 15
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Chase Roper
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Dogs and Cheese and Shoes and Sid
Exploring my history as a silly songwriter and a memory of an old friendship
Aug 14
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Steve Goldberg
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Doctor, My Eyes
How a Jackson Browne earworm led me to deal with a particularly annoying eyeworm
Jun 11
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FTA: Eels - Not Ready Yet
Sometimes the world is just too scary to engage with
Jun 5
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Steve Goldberg
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8 New Albums That Quiet My Monkey Mind
I'm finding myself gravitating toward quieter, contemplative fare in 2025
May 26
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Steve Goldberg
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Pop Goes the Weasel
An insidious nursery rhyme is this week's earworm
May 18
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UB40 - Rat in Mi Kitchen
FTA: The year our small home housed 17 living creatures
Apr 30
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Breaking Up With a Missing Person Is Hard to Do
Forgetting what words are for in a state of perpetual mental hopscotch
Apr 22
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