“It’s Spooky in Here”
Comfort’s made a mess, all along the fault, ripe enough to rain and once again the minds of the Califone arbiters race to goop in the waning harvest moon. It finally hits me to make a playlist of Wilco and Califone, their sort of sister group and fellow Chicago cohort, finding my Wilco selections to … Read more“It’s Spooky in Here”
“Wilcalifone Please Stop Asking Me if I Like Calexico?”
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“Dream Pearl Jam Lolla Setlist”
I have to admit, I’d planned on doing an exposee on Lollapalooza, expecting to find attendance down amongst the recent hush of online buzz over the event. As it stands, I’m floored: this year’s attendance was up 15k from last year to 115,000, according to MP3 Mag, and the writer of the article for this … Read more“Dream Pearl Jam Lolla Setlist”
“A Stern Bow to Steve Harwell, Late Singer in Smash Mouth”
It seems like there’s been a weird, conspicuous lack of chatter about Steve Harwell’s death (liver failure, per NPR), at 56, on social media today, so I thought I’d just whip up a little blurb in commemoration of him. Of course, the elephant in the room here is “All Star,” the band’s mega-hit from their … Read more“A Stern Bow to Steve Harwell, Late Singer in Smash Mouth”
“‘B.F.G.F.’: When Eve 6 Made a Kind-of Understandable Stab at a Radio Hit on a Comeback Album”
Now, I’m kind of a dunce for writing this article, since in general my typical mission is to praise this band and try to highlight all of their underrated tracks and strengths that go unheralded by a dourly callous media. These, by and large, centralize themselves within the band’s third album, It’s All in Your … Read more“‘B.F.G.F.’: When Eve 6 Made a Kind-of Understandable Stab at a Radio Hit on a Comeback Album”