Review: The Dead Jettsons – What Future? EP
I’m not usually a huge fan of anything with much of a garage-rock flavor but there is just something about The Dead Jettsons. Hailing from Middlebury, VT, the band has an EP out now called What Future? that combines the revved-up energy of garage-rock with an almost psychedelic metal/folk vibe and poppy dance-punk in a (Read more…)
Review: LaGrecia – On Parallels
Okay. I loved Jason Shevchuk as the singer of Kid Dynamite but never really latched on to None More Black the way I expected to. So when None More Black split up I just sorta shrugged my shoulders and said,“eh,” expecting that to be the last I’d hear from Mr. Shevchuk. I was wrong. I (Read more…)
What I did at the Vans Warped Tour (Part 2)
Dear punk kids at the Chicago Warped Tour, I’m totally fucking disappointed with you. The best band at this year’s stop on the Warped Tour had one of the smallest crowds I saw all day and few people were even singing along. You should be ashamed of yourselves. Let me give you the facts: Broadway (Read more…)
What I did at the Vans Warped Tour (Part 1)
Oddly (and coincidentally) enough about 10 minutes before I left the house this morning, my wife exclaimed, “I might be taking Hailey to Lollapalooza today.” WTF? Well, her friend Ashlee had extra passes for today so Amy and Hailey met Ashlee and her son for a little Kidzapalooza action (and to see the Terrible Twos) (Read more…)
Lolla-pa-losing
For the second year in a row I’m not at Lollapalooza. So fuckin’ what though, right? Yeah, Radiohead is prolly playing as I type this and that is a little bit of a bummer. I also wanted to see Wilco, The Weakerthans, and a few others, but overall, there’s a lot of shit to wade (Read more…)
