This week’s been at least a touch calmer over at Citizen Dick headquarters and while I’m probably not in any shape to have an excellent brunch, this week’s tracklist is pretty stout.  The forecast for the next three months looks promising, and we’ll do our best to keep you updated.  As we usually advertise, don’t [...]

As Brian mockingly mentioned earlier in the week, we’ve hit the winter doldrums here at Citizen Dick and have been swamped with our 9 to 5’s.  Call it burnout, call it stress, but we’ve been neglecting our readership quite a bit.  As we slowly crawl out of our ice caves and begin to hit you [...]

As you may have noticed, we’ve been a little weak with the content this week.  You get our sincere apologies.  It’s been a busy few weeks for all of the Dicks and we’re slowly finishing up the circle laps we’ve been swimming.  We’ll keep this short and simple:  There are huge things happening musically and [...]

I believe one of our first Radio Dick features was on Valentine’s Day last year.  I vaguely remember hosting a sarcastic discussion about how I was more interested in getting my tax return than in any sort of holiday for lovers.  It’s probably fitting this week that the blogosphere was splattered with so much loving [...]

Nice to see Brian hit his Lazy Saturday post, even if it’s on Sunday.  In any event, as promised, I’ve got the second installment of this week’s Radio Dick primed and ready to go.  So as y’all overindulge today and watch the Colts take it to the Saints, do it with a soundtrack of new [...]

Those dudes up there attended Yale.  They’re ambitious and reliable.  If I were forced to hop in a boat with 9 other dudes for my own safety, I’d be pleased to have these young lads at the helm.  We’re not as reliable at Citizen Dick, or at least we haven’t been over the last three [...]

This has been a tough week as a literature teacher.  Brian alluded to the heartfelt loss we feel as a reading community at the loss of Howard Zinn and JD Salinger this week.  Zinn was a seminal author for Brian, and understandably so.  For me, however, Salinger’s writing marked a pivotal change for me.  My [...]

Editor’s Note:  Albums are already starting to stack up, and oddly, this week’s installment of Radio Dick offers a playlist of things to come (and probably fitting that most of these are heavy hitting acts with prolific careers already).  I’m starting to get the feel that many bands used 2009 as an off-season and this [...]

The mid-January thaw in Cleveland is always a nice reprieve from the snowy assault that usually spans five months of our year in the snow belt of Ohio.  Typically, the gods smile intermittently and allow us the chance to catch up with the plowing and salting of the roads.  The slight increase above freezing temps [...]

Let the games begin, so to speak.  The holiday lull is officially over.  Pronounced and emphasized by the amazing leaks from the past four days, January is in full gear and the horde of new music is primed and ready to go.  Our goal at Citizen Dick, as always, is to do our best to [...]

There’s really no way that I’m actually awake as this post hits the interwebs.  We’re shooting this post out into the ether just to say hello and wish our readers a healthy and prosperous 2010.  One year ago today, we jump started Citizen Dick at midnight as the ball dropped, and it’s been an amazingly [...]

Editor’s Aside:  Before I dig into today’s music and drop you off at our 11 song list, I wanted to remind all of our readers to follow along with our “Best Albums of 2009″ list that we’re slowly unveiling.  Click on our Best Albums of 2009 tag to see our list.  We’re doing things a [...]

We’ve received plenty of emails recently asking us about our end of the year list.  Readership, let’s begin.
Our inaugural year in the blogosphere has been spectacular, and although we have our customary mix of free and legal tunes below, we’re stoked to announce our “Best Albums of 2009″ coverage starting tomorrow.  As we candidly use [...]

I’ve never been a Sirius Satellite Radio subscriber, but I think I’m going to take the leap.  I visited my parents in grand Cincinnati this weekend for the holidays and my mother and I also took the winding four hour drive through Tennessee, as they have a vacation cabin just outside of Knoxville.  Along the [...]

Today’s Radio Dick will digress into semi-rant this weekend, not particularly because the tracklist I’ve got below is bad, but more because I’m knee deep in New Moon nonsense.  Considering the soundtrack issue is relevant and thought-provoking, I wanted to follow up on my already disdainful, yet mildly successful take on my initial fears and [...]

At the very moment you’re reading this post, I, Kevin, of Citizen Dick, do solemnly swear that last night’s White Denim concert was the cat’s ass, and I also swear that I won’t wake up until at least 12:30 this afternoon.  Leave a message at the beep.

In all seriousness, this post was compiled and completed [...]

If you’ve noticed, I switched up the format of Radio Dick over the last couple of weeks into semi-review mode as opposed to the bag-o-tunes mentality.  However, just this once, I’m going back to the old-school mode, specifically using the “I’ve got too much grading to do” argument.  The end of the first nine weeks [...]

We’ve dished out quite a bit of content this week, so I suppose I’ll get to the music list early.  If you’re just tuning in, I’ve switched up the way these Radio Dick posts go, attempting to offer a little more commentary on the tracks I’m posting.  This week, I’ve got an interesting mix of [...]

Sweetest Day didn’t go well for me.  On one hand, I woke up entirely hung over from Friday’s Dr. Dog show at Beachland.  We had a little Citizen Dick reunion of sorts, with Rob, Brian, and Justin all converging at my place after the amazing set the medicinally astute canine put on for us.  Plenty [...]

I have a friend that’s soon going to be a famous actress.  This is not a lie.  I woke up yesterday morning to find “Paranormal Activity” as the top Twitter trending topic.  See, I have friends in high places, and soon you’ll have to recognize that this is just how I roll.  I eat fine [...]