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Let’s say you live to age ninety. How many days do you have left to live? Take your age now and subtract it from ninety, then multiply that number by 365. That’s pretty finite, isn’t it? It might seem like you have plenty of days left (especially...

Featured Image by xrayspx via Flickr In 1962, an album was released that encapsulated a sound that became known as the “surf/rock” sound and, through its success, introduced this sound to Middle America in the early 1960’s, thanks in part to the popularizing...

by Dave Segal Joe Gallivan: Shafted countless times by the music biz and still drumming. If you’re a serious jazz head, you may have seen Joe Gallivan’s name in the credits of some heavy records. But even among fanatics and scholars of the music, he...

Genre: Soundtrack Date: 1985 Country: USA Audio codec: MP3 Quality: 320 kbs Playtime: 42:56 01. Jan Hammer - The Original Miami Vice Theme (Instrumental) (01:02) 02. Glenn Frey - Smuggler's Blues (03:50) 03. Chaka Khan - Own The Night (04:52) 04...

January is named for Jan Hammer. He wrote the "Miami Vice" theme. January is where the new year begins. It's like a the mouth of a mighty river that starts with just a trickle and expands to a roaring unstoppable sea by late December. And we are but...