Feb 16, 2012

My big break was roughly ten years ago when I started writing a column for a professional wrestling site. And not just any site, one of the most popular in the world, for the subject matter anyway. The big issue was that I was really bad at it. Like, Hindenburg bad. Like, even worse then I am now. I tired way too hard, and I shoehorned a bunch of odd gimmicks...

Feb 2, 2012

I had somebody ask me the other day why I write for a blog about Des Moines and include so many bands who aren’t technically from Des Moines.  The answer is very simple. If you think of Des Moines less as a town and more as a music scene, then you have to include the talent from some neighboring cities.  Des Moines as a music scene, I think, includes the...

Jan 26, 2012

I have been told there is very little music that I don’t like and that I seem to find the good in pretty much everything.  That’s close to  true, but there is one type of music that I kind of universally dislike, and not surprisingly it is modern popular country music.  I say not surprisingly because, for as popular as it is, it seems almost equally as...

Jan 19, 2012

Sometimes I like to play a little game where I try immediately to guess who someone sounds like.  While people are, or course, making original music all time, they aren’t doing it without also listening to other artists, just like I am not writing this without also being influenced by what others have written.  Some of the best artists in the world carry...

Jan 12, 2012

I have never lived anywhere in my life but the greater Des Moines area.  To some that may seem lame, to others probably kind of awesome.  In reality it falls somewhere in the middle.  I can say without a doubt that I haven’t experienced enough of other areas; their people, their customs, their culture, etc.  But I am also comfortable being a part of a city...

Dec 22, 2011

I have always wanted to do one of these.  I always read as many best of lists as I can get my hands on, just to see if there stuff I missed, so to finally have an outlet to bust out my own list-o-mania is kind of exciting.  But to be honest, it was like really, really hard.  I didn’t want to embarrass myself, so I tried to listen to as many albums as I...