Another year in the books. Musically it was pretty solid. I attended my 14th Iceland Airwaves music festival. I did my first-ever DJ set. I went record shopping in New York City, Vienna, Bratislava, and Reykjavik. And I brought 277 physical releases into the house, if my Disocgs collection is to be believed (and I […]
Tag: Revenge of Calculon
Revenge of Calculon – “Casino Fight!” (2025)
“Calculon sent Sonic-Funkatronic to us from a distant planet,” the old man told the young ones sitting at his feet. “It saw that earth had lost its funkiness, that we needed to be get our groove back.” The young ones nodded at the old man’s wisdom. It was said he had actually SEEN Sonic-Funkatronic once! […]
Iceland Airwaves 2025 – Day 3
I realized earlier this week that I never posted about the final day of Iceland Airwaves 2025, which was a serious oversight on my part because a few really cool things happened. We opened the day at Lucky Records just after Noon. Why, you ask? Oh, I don’t know, maybe because I kinda-sorta was scheduled […]
Iceland Airwaves 2025 – Day 2
The weather remained perfect for the second day of Iceland Airwaves. Sure, it was chilly – it’s November and the country has “ice” in its name. But it was also sunny for much of the day, so it stayed dry, and the was only a bit of a breeze, not the normal take-your-breath-away wind we’ve […]
The Best of 2024
Another year is in the books. They are just speeding by these days, which I suspect is a combination of me getting older and some kind of temporal distortion caused by COVID that seemed to change how time is experienced. Regardless, it was a good year in the Life In The Vinyl Lane household with […]