Breaking News:Metallica to go into hall of fame

Here's some breaking news: sources are telling WRRV that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class of 2009 has been selected. We have just learned that Metallica will be inducted this year along side Jeff Beck, Run D-M-C and Wanda Jackson. The induction ceremony will be held April 4th in Cleveland. How cool is that? Brandi will have more tomorrow on Music News!

Music All Morning flashback: Japanese "We Are The World"

If you remember the old Music All Morning page, you must also remember the lip sync of "We Are The World" that was done on a Japanese TV game show. Apparently, the rest of the world is just finding out about it now (a year later) and the video is making it's way around the net again. If someone emails it to you, remember to tell them that Boris was marveling at Japanese Bruce Springsteen and worshiping Japanese Cyndi Lauper way back in 2007!

Rufus Hussy, American hero

I don't think there's anything that I'm as good at as Rufus Hussy is good at shooting his slingshot.

What beer were you drinking?

I received a bunch of emails from people asking more about the beer I was talking about during the show yesterday. Those of you that listen know that I'm a geek when it comes to beer. Yesterday I mentioned that I found a beer that I was really looking forward to trying at a bar over the weekend. The beer is called Brooklyn Black Ops and is made by Brooklyn Brewing. True it its name, finding this beer hasn't been easy and very little information has been leaked about when and where you can get it. (I missed trying it by hours on my last trip to the city). It's an Imperial Stout that weighs in at about 11% alcohol (Bud is about 5%). The stout is aged in oak bourbon barrels for 4 months, and then refermented in the bottle using champagne yeast. The oak barrels are supposed to give the stout a boozy vanilla flavor. Brooklyn already makes one of the best imperial stouts called Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout, so I was really excited to try this.

How was it? Well, I've had many oak aged beers, and more than my fair share of imperial stouts. and while this one was very good... I was expecting more. I like big, strong stouts that have lots of flavors like vanilla, molasses, licorice and brown sugar. This one was suprisingly a little thin. The alcohol flavor was very strong, too. A sign of a good imperial stout is one that is balanced well enough so you don't feel the heat from the high amount of alcohol in it. This could have been from the burbon barrels it was aged in. Maybe it was the hype and hefty price tag that built up my expectations too much... although after hunting for 2 years and trading with some guy on the internet for the super-hyped and elusive Dark Lord Imperial Stout I was completely blown away, and still think it's one of the best beers I've ever had. Would I have the Black Ops again? If someone else will spend $28 on the bottle I'll gladly give it another shot!

Why no posts this morning?

The computer in my office at the palatial Cumulus Broadcasting studios in Poughkeepsie has been acting up for a few days... apparently because it was infected with a virus that multiplied last night, killing the hard drive.


(insert your own internet porn joke here)

Apparently our IT guy said that he noticed that our virus protection wasn't downloading updates for a while. So, I'm sure more computers in the building are bound to follow. Luckily, I learned to religiously back things up after my computer crashed the last time, so the only thing this really affects is my ability to update the site before the show. Hopefully we won't have this problem tomorrow, as I have already made a copy of the key to Simon's office and will be taking over his PC.