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There’s a lot of hope in the Music Building. The place is semi-legendary, at least to those of us who grew up watching Behind The Music. The 42,000-square-foot building located on Eighth Avenue between 38th and 39th — catty-corner from The Port Authority Bus Terminal — is eleven stories of rehearsal space: 70, 350 square…

You knew it was coming, right? Authentic Records will release my seventh, full-length studio LP on Tuesday, June 24. The working title for the album is “The Invention of Everything Else.” Pre-production for the all-acoustic release has already begun. Tony Maceli, Chris Abad, Ryan Vaughn and I started arranging the tunes Thursday night at Ultrasound…

It must have been sometime around third grade. My family — Mom, Dad, Chris and I — were in Carmel, California, the small, sea-side town on the Monterey Peninsula known for its famous residents: Clint Eastwood, Ansel Adams, Pebble Beach. We were on one of the few family vacations I can remember, this one as…

I ran for an hour and twenty-four minutes this morning listening to the same two songs over and over and over. Taken together, REM’s “Living Well Is The Best Revenge” and “Man Sized Wreath” clock in at 5:44. Which means that in my ten and a half mile run south along the Hudson, east across…

I have a small contingency of friends, colleagues and family members who question my rabid over-involvement. The MTV, the blogs, the documentary, the records and shows, marathons and triathlons. What gives? they ask. Isn’t any one of those things enough? What’s wrong with you? I was reminded the other night that there are stages to…

This is funny. Or alarming. Or both. I’ve re-learned an important life lesson in the last few weeks. Remember when you were taught how to write a persuasive essay in grammar school? The form is simple: state your argument in the thesis, and support it with at least three data points. (I’m not sure that’s…