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Spending a Weekend in the Soul of Brooklyn
On a few rare occasions, opportunities cross your path that you simply can't let pass up or you'll end up regretting it for ever. When I learned that renown Soul DJ Jonathan Toubin was preparing...
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Lambretta Jet 200 Time Capsule
Some Mods are part of the Vespa camp while others are die-hard Lambretta devotees. I appreciate and own both. I did tempt contreversy and declare one of the two brands as the ultimate Mod scooter. You...
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Expo 67 - A Mod Utopia
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the 1967 World's Fair in Montreal, Canada, better known as Expo 67. As a Montreal native that was born just a few years after 1967, I'm acutely aware of the...
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The Top 10 Northern Soul and Garage Tracks from the 60s about Batman
As Adam West and Burt Ward hit the small screen in January 1966 in the widely popular The Batman TV series and amidst America's dance craze, a slew of Soul and Garage acts recorded singles praising the...
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Addicted To The Needle - The Podcast Where A Vinyl Addict Meets His Dealer
Are you addicted to collecting records? Do you have black wax coursing through your veins? Has your vinyl dependance gotten out of control? Amassing 45s has become an obsession? A brand new podcast...
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Time For A New Symbol? Let's Make Mod History!
The Mod roundel has been associated, for better or for worse, to the Mod culture for decades now. I've discussed my love / hate relationship with the "target" in a 2011 blog post entitled The Mod...
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The Top 30 Sixties Soul Tracks About Food - Part I - The Instrumentals
My obession with coming up with "suites" featuring a certain theme is relentless. That's how my crazy Mod DJ brain works. On any given night, I'll be behind the turntables and I'll spin a few tracks...
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Mod On The Road: The Genesis of a Mod - Back To Toronto - Part I
When DJ Nico invited me to DJ her With It night in Toronto, I don't think she had any idea what this invitation meant to me. That city is where it all started for me. My love affair with all things Mod...
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The Top 35 Sixties Tracks About Food: Part II - The Vocals
In part I, I tackled the instrumental side of my food suite. You can read all about the top 30 here. There are so many 45s that are food related that I had no choice but to come up with part II,...
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A Mod's letter to America
Dear America,I never thought that my generation would live through social changes the magnitude of the civil rights movement of the 60s or the protest over the Vietnam war. I'm a Mod who grew and...
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