RIP Tony Sly
She’s never alone, because she’s scared of what she might say to herselfAlways drinking in the backroom of the bar where everyone turns inA half-hearted grinShe won’t be afraid as long as that prescription keeps going throughAnd all the happy pills make her look like cardboard cut out of someone,I use to learn [...]

Heading up to Winnipeg to see an old favorite band of mine, Propaghandi!  They don’t really play in the States and some HS buddies are making the trek.  I’m pretty excited, leaving in under an hour.  Guess I should pack, eh?  Adios.

Recently saw both shows at First Avenue.  They were both very good.  New album sets for both.  It was the first time I’d seen either and it was a show.  Bright Eyes definitely played a killer set, over an hour and a half.  I had to dip out before the encore though. RAA finished their [...]

I’ve gotten a lot of good CDs lately, here’s a current playlist:
The Tallest Man On Earth:  All of his stuff
Rural Alberta Advantage:  Departing
Bayside:  Wasting Time
Beach Boys:  Pet Sounds
Bright Eyes:  The People’s Key
Destroyer:  Kaputt
They are all pretty good so far.  The Tallest Man On Earth will definitely make some of my favorite music this year, the [...]

Mary Ann, do you remember,
The tree by the river,
When we were seventeen,
I can’t ..calling in the answer,
And the .. in the pasture…his teeth.
I recall the sun in our faces,
Stuck in our engraces and be … to change
Radio and the pones we find frozen,
All the thornes and the roses beneath you though pain
I’m gonna sleep in [...]

This year, I tracked all the albums I purchased. Here is the list in Google Docs.  I don’t think I’ll track albums anymore in the future, but it was a good exercise to understand how much I buy and which albums get a lot of play.  Last year I spent a long time describing [...]

It was radical.  Here’s the poster I purchased:

And here’s a video:

This was one of the best shows I’ve seen in a LONG time and was totally worth the money.  I don’t know when they’ll be back, but I’ll go again.  I need to see more shows.  I know that the formatting bleeds into the right [...]

I’ve tried. Lord knows I’ve tried. Music is a driving force for me, has been since I purchased that first dubbed tape of Green Day Dookie in the sixth grade.
I’m not alone. Despite the exaggerations of a dying music industry, even more people listen to music today and the long tail has [...]

(Editors note, this is coming out in late January due to being on the road.)
This is going to be a long post.  Get some popcorn, I would, but I don’t care for it.  It takes me a LONG time to write this.  It’s Friday, I’m listening to Get Lonely by the Mountain Goats and am [...]