Review: Good Luck – Into Lake Griffy
So evidently our old friend Jolene was friends Ginger (the bass player) from Good Luck. When I told the wife that I don’t think I ever met her, she said that Ginger crashed at our place once. I must have been drinking or something like that because I don’t remember at all. What I do (Read more…)
Review: Forest Fire – Survival
The first lyric on Forest Fire’s latest album Survival finds Mark Thresher singing, “I make windows.” It’s kinda fitting because I make windows… or at least I know and work with people that make windows. Perhaps the company can adopt it as their theme song, or perhaps not. Just imagine a cross between Red Red (Read more…)
It came from the nineties (Vol. 41)
I was almost going to post all Smashing Pumpkins songs this time but decided against it. Instead I’m posting something that one of you readers out there asked for, “Cumbersome.” To be perfectly honest with you, I’ve always hated that song even though I can probably sing the majority of the words. It is like (Read more…)
Review: Pattern Is Movement – All Together
There can be slight movements in the patterns of nature and even in repetitive and angular man-made patterns, the perception of movement can certainly present itself. Those sorts of ambiguous and confounding statements might just as well describe the music of Pattern Is Movement as typical music descriptors. The group is a duo comprised of (Read more…)
Review: Joe Pug – Nation Of Heat EP
I saw Joe Pug open up for Backyard Tire Fire and Ha Ha Tonka maybe a month ago and he was great as is his newest recording the Nation Of Heat EP. Pug is a Chicago-based singe/songwriter (only in the sense that he writes and sings mostly acoustic songs) that shows off Dylan-esqe vocals and (Read more…)
Revival Tour Recap
So Friday night the wife and I headed downtown to see The Revival Tour featuring Chuck Ragan (of Hot Water Music), Tim Barry (of Avail), Ben Nichols (of Lucero), Austin Lucas, and Chris McCaughan (of The Lawrence Arms), along with a backing band consisting of Jon Gaunt on fiddle, Todd Beene on pedal steel, and (Read more…)
Review: Floormodel – Random Access Memories
I’m not really sure exactly where to start this review, so I guess I’ll just start way back at the beginning. Back in the day I was a big Gameface fan (I still am by the way) so when (out of the blue) I got an email from former Gameface frontman Jeff Caudill about his (Read more…)
