In with the down and out crowd
If you didn’t know it already, summertime is almost here (officially that is) and I can’t think of a better way to kick off the summer than with a little high-octane party music. Coincidentally (or not) punk rock stalwarts Less Than Jake have a new album out called In With The Out Crowd that is (Read more…)
Review: The Forecast – In The Shadow Of Two Gunmen (or) smokestacks and cornfields
Peoria is a blue-collar working-class town in central Illinois and it where The Forecast calls home and the influence of those hometown roots is clearly evident in their music. It is country-tinged post-hardcore indie rock (fuck, lets just call it what it really is… emo) that is melodic and catchy-as-hell. Anchored by the powerful male/female (Read more…)
A bath in the kitchen sink
Nothing says fun quite like 10 hours on the road in the pouring rain with a teething 7 month old in the backseat, right? Well, it wasn’t really all that bad. Last Thursday, Amy and I packed up the little one and headed off to Pennsylvania to visit the home of Straub Beer and fine (Read more…)
