10 Bands is a newsletter about musicians, songs, albums, etc that I am particularly excited about and want to share with other music lovers. It’s that simple. In college I started a fanzine (“The Blaster”), that led to several years as a freelance music writer (RIP Option Magazine, and others), that ultimately led to my now 30+ years in radio. I started an MP3 blog called Some Velvet Blog in 2004, in the OG blog days before the MP3 blog world got co-opted by the music industry machine. The opinions of 10 Bands do not necessarily reflect the opinions of WXPN’s programming team, which I am associated with. Deal with it.

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