Category: Listen To This

  • Buffalo Tom and Me

    With Buffalo Tom’s new album, “Jump Rope”, being released soon, I am transposing a Twitter thread I posted in 2022 outlining my history of listening to the band. Set the Wayback Machine for 1993. I was managing a retail clothing store on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Corporate in-store music started including “alternative…

  • “Automatic for the People” at thirty-one

    I’m listening to R.E.M.’s “Automatic for the People” on this, the thirty-first anniversary of its release, and it never gets old. I remember the fall of 1992 vividly. I was living in South Jersey, working two unfulfilling retail jobs, and didn’t know what was next for me. The end of the summer season that year,…