A musical journey
This started out much longer, but I decided I could really pare it down to this: four years ago last...
Taking Inventory
They don’t warn you when you’re a cynical young bastard that some day you’ll be a sentimental old bastard, that...
Where I Am Now
Clever observers, or those few who continued to follow this blog that I started way back in a previous life,...
Home Taping Was Not Killing Music
A group of music friends got into a discussion: Does anybody still make mix tapes/mix CDs, or are there any...
What’s In My Ears
The music is amazing these days, and right now I’m listening to a mix of power pop from local talent,...
Blow up that nest!
I suppose there are gentler ways to introduce your children to adulthood. It wasn’t that I wanted to leave their...
Thinking that night about Elvis
I can’t recall if in my brief writing career I ever reviewed a live music show, but I think I’d...
More harm than good
A very random line from a post over at Indie Moines set me off on something that has been weighing...
Beatlemania, 2011
This is simply fascinating. I may watch nothing else for the next week (literally, since the Playstation Network — and...
Let’s start the new year with an apology
A couple of years ago, I was man enough to officially apologize to Fleetwood Mac. I was wrong, “Tusk” was...