Mitch Teich

1 week ago | northcountrypublicradio.org | Mitch Teich

These are perilous times. A lot of the people and things and institutions many of us have depended on to make our world a better place are under threat. I don’t know about you, but there are mornings I wake up, half expecting to read a headline that Thomas Edison’s descendants have been called to testify before a House of Representatives subcommittee formed to investigate whether the microphone he developed 150 years ago disproportionately amplifies voices spoken in other languages.

2 weeks ago | northcountrypublicradio.org | Mitch Teich

This week’s column is coming to you from New York City. The Big Apple. La Grande Pomme, as I would describe it if I had cause to talk about New York in French. Der große Apfel, if I wanted to take a few minutes of my Sunday morning to remember how to type ‘ß’ without looking for a German website and copying and pasting. I’m here for a few meetings, which I might someday write about. But I have other poissons and fisch to fry this morning.

3 weeks ago | northcountrypublicradio.org | Mitch Teich

I enjoy music. Maybe you do, too. I mean, it’s rare to run into someone who says, “you know, I really just don’t like music.”  They’re probably out there, and they probably don’t like chocolate chip cookies, either. As I write this, Cheap Trick’s 1978 anthem, “Surrender” is playing on my stereo. It’s the live version, recorded at the Nippon Budokan arena in Tokyo (far superior to the studio version, in my book).

1 month ago | northcountrypublicradio.org | Mitch Teich

Mitch TeichNorth Words: You can hear stuff in the background of this new album. The band likes it that way. When musicians Michael Shofi and Jake Slater decided it was time to record the songs they'd been working on together, they wanted to get away from the literal - and figurative - noise of their homes in Brooklyn. They traded it for the relative quiet of a rented hunting cabin in the Adirondacks. As it turned out, even a quiet place has noises - noises that found their way into the recording.

1 month ago | northcountrypublicradio.org | Mitch Teich

This all started because Linus is a very affectionate cockapoo. You see, when my alarm goes off in the morning, I usually hit ‘snooze’ and bury my head in between two of the 74 pillows on my side of the bed and prepare to savor another nine minutes of precious, precious sleep. But if the alarm (that Samsung hit, “Walk Home”) sounds for more than .002 seconds, Linus takes it as a sign that the humans are awake, which is his cue to start cleaning my ears.