Kurt Groetsch @ OldTasty.com

I came across this Peanuts panel over the weekend in a post on the WFMU blog touting their upcoming record fair. I LOVED Peanuts when I was a kid (a strip which from an adult perspective has a healthy dose of melancholia and fatalism that didn’t really register at the time), and was/am an avid […]

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I’m alive and well, and while I’m not posting much here, I’m still uploading pictures […]

What he said.
And if you haven’t seen it, Funky16Corners is one of the best music blogs out there. More scratchy funk, soul and R&B than you can fit on your hard drive. Don’t know how he finds the time to do it, but more power to him, he’s serving the greater good

If you’ve seen the movie Amélie, you’ll no doubt remember the scene where estranged father Dominique Bretodeau is overcome with emotions after discovering a box of toys and mementos from his childhood in an empty phone booth. Well, that’s exactly how I feel right now: I just discovered that a much loved song from my […]

That subject line describes pretty much everything in my life right now, but in this particular case it refers to a track I dug up from one of my old bands. Back in 1994-1995, I played with a little country/rock outfit called Sugarstickygirl (don’t get me started) with my friends Toby, Todd and Mary Alice. […]

Ready Steady A Go-Go: Front, originally uploaded by Oldtasty.
I posted this on my Flickr site a long time ago, but spurred on by one of my classes, I’ve finally gotten around to ripping a song to MP3 format — go here to listen to “Soo Cho Riverside” by Charlie and His Go-Go Boys. Make it […]

I love Cui Jian, and longtime readers of this site know it’s true. Why am I restating the obvious? Because I just stumbled across a little animated video for the single from his new album — new album! — and it’s freaking fantastic. Do yourself a favor and check it out.

Exciting news (for me at least): “Sandwiches That You Will Like” is scheduled to air this Monday, February 10 on KETC (Channel 9) in St. Louis. The rest of the country has already seen me stuffing my face on TV, now it’s my chance!
Also, there’s new content on the site, this time in the “Projects” […]

I’m a Beatles nut, and have been since junior high school, so this article’s premise (what would the Beatles next album have sounded like if they hadn’t broken up?) got me to thinking. There are some interesting ideas thrown out in the author’s version of the track listing, but I have my own thoughts, of […]

Stolen gear, campus killings, Hurricane Fran and surgery. That’s just life on the road for Kill Creek.