Accordion, Instrument of the Gods

Tired of Shakin’ It Like a Polaroid Picture

Today, November 10, 2004, is the first anniversary of ther release of Outkast's biggest single, Hey Ya!, in the UK.…

20 years ago

"The subject of accordions comes up…"

I just got an email from my friend Karen B., who wrote in response to the invitation to my party…

20 years ago

Accordion City’s Newest Accordion Player

Saturday night: The last errand I ran prior to hopping in my car and going to Homecoming at Crazy Go…

20 years ago

Dude!

I'm in Che Kothari's series of photo portraits taken at the 2004 Om Festival back in June: Accordion badass! That…

20 years ago

Homecoming 2004

I'd been so busy over the past few weeks, what with Wendy's birthday and our engagement, that I hadn't given…

20 years ago

Electro-Accordions Galore

Warpjam mentioned to me that Gizmodo pointed to the Topaz-1, an old Soviet electronic accordion, pictured below. I love the…

20 years ago

The Birthday/Engagement Party: The Announcement!

It's almost that time. The legendary Joey deVilla birthday party returns, now enriched with an extra reason to celebrate: my…

20 years ago

Accordion-o-Rama

The Accorgan Ladies and gentlemen, meet accordion number four, an Iorio "accorgan" (which I assume is a combination of "accordion"…

20 years ago

Lemony Snicket on Politics and the Accordion

[via Eldon Brown] Daniel Handler (whom most of us know by his nom de plume, Lemony Snicket, author of the…

20 years ago

Yes, I’ve Heard

A number of you have informed me that the gadget blog Endgadget posted an article on the Roland digital accordion…

20 years ago