The Rogers

Tag: music

Ruckus RIP

Ruckus, the company at which I first worked after graduating from college, shut down today around 5:30pm EST. I left the company in February of 2006, nineteen months after I was hired as the approximately thirtieth employee. While I’ve been far removed from the company for a long time, I look back on my time [...]

Smooth Tunes, Smooth Swing

I played the saxophone in junior high school, which for some reason – a reason I will never live down – got me hooked on Kenny G’s music. His album titled, “Breathless,” is my favorite. Although, I would also recommend “Miracles” if the holiday season is nearing. And the point of this post is to [...]

Anti-DRM T-Shirts

I would classify myself as an anti-DRM person. I like my MP3s to work when and where I want them to. And I want to play them as many times as I want to on as many machines as I want. That’s greedy, but it’s also the mainstream thought process when it comes to digital [...]

Shows This Semester

The Queers (somewhere in Boston / Cambridge) – I enjoyed this show because it was, well, outside of my comfort zone. And, it made me functionally deaf for 48 hours. I’ve never heard an old man scream so loudly. Is it sacrilegious in a punk-rockish kind of way to say that about Joe Queer? Jenny [...]