Mar 22, 2012

This may surprise a lot of people, but I am not the biggest fan of The Nadas. I mean, I like them, they’re talented musicians, they work really hard and any interaction I have ever had with them personally has been pleasant. I just well, honestly, I got a bit burnt out on them. For a period of time in the early to mid-aughts, my wife and her friends got really...

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...

Dec 8, 2011

I normally like to start these out with some sort of anecdote or personal experience or some sort of overriding thesis to try and tie the music I talk about into some sort of grand message.  But here is a fact about me, I’m simultaneously very busy and very lazy. My day job is retail, retail in December is just bollocks (I mean, retail period is just...

Oct 27, 2011

A few months ago I posted about Center on Sustainable Communities(COSC), and I want to let you all know about their annual fundraising party, Evergreen. I know what you’re thinking, “Another damn fundraiser.” I know they seem to hit you everywhere from work to school to the phone calls, but this fundraiser is seriously cool. And it’s...

Oct 13, 2011

I adore the internet.  I think it is just the bee‘s knees.  The fact that we have this little box that can take us to literally anything in the world astounds me on almost a daily basis.  But, I think my favorite thing about the internet is when I get to listen to something that I had no idea existed.  When I started this column weeks ago, I pretty much...