Notes from the Ironbound

  The world's most wholesome Zoom meeting This week marks five months of quarantine and the most time I have ever spent with my children...

The newest episode of my podcast Old Dad's Records is up this week . Since yesterday was my birthday, I talk about the year I was bor...

Last night I watched an episode of The Sweeney for the first time in a bit, and remembered how much I love it. I have a strange obsession...

It’s been way too long since I’ve done a top ten list. I choose this week pretty much at random, and liked what I saw. I tend to see 1976 as...

I have a theory that in terms of culture, the seventies don't really begun until sometime in late 1971, with 1972 the real first full ye...

In 1978 Kiss was riding on top of the world. Their mix of catchy hard rock, shock horror/sci-fi tropes, theatricality, and clown makeup ...

As I mentioned last week, I'm about to turn 40, and am picking some tracks of the week based on their proximity to when I was born in...

Over the past few weeks I've been finding myself obsessed with the period between 1979 to 1981, which I think of as "Reagan Dawn....

Most fans of classic rock and soul music tend to think of the late sixties as the golden age of popular music, and there isn't much I ca...

I make no bones about my love of 1970s American film.  It was a short, blessed era (really over by the late 1970s, actually) where challengi...

I've had Star Wars on the brain a lot this summer.  I recently babysat a friend's son who happens to be a Star Wars fanatic, and we ...

I am a pathetic old man, since I primarily use my Hulu subscription to watch old reruns of 70s television shows rather than keeping up on ...

Unlike a lot of people, I can't just sit down and burn through whole seasons of television in a day.  The repetition gets to me, plus...

As the years go by, my musical tastes have been changing about as dramatically as my life priorities.  Around the age of 19, I had immersed...

There is very little music that sounds more dated today than post-sixties hippie rock in general, and Crobsy, Stills, Nash and (sometimes) ...

As those who read this blog should know by now, my pop culture interests are heavily Anglophilic and 1970s obsessed.  These two l...

Ever since I finally broke down and bought a turntable a few years back, I have been delving deeply into the music of the 1970s.  Don't ...