I just heard about Katie Toupin leaving Houndmouth and I gotta say, I’m pretty bummed. I mean, I’m not devastated. I just started listening to them a couple months ago and its not like she’s dead. But her presence in this band, especially her soulful voice will be missed. Apparently she’s going to go make…
Chuck Ragan recently created a soundtrack for a video game. Yeah,I thought it was weird too. I’ve been thinking about video games a lot lately. I was reading an article about the official end of Xbox 360 (the current console I have) and I’m wondering if this is the end for me. I’ve never been…
It’s been cold, rainy and windy here for a few days. Really gloomy stuff. And not just because Prince left us. Well, maybe. His legend is still growing post mortem to the point where I may have heard about his ability to change the weather with his confident, post-guitar-solo, self satisfied grins. Regardless of the origins…
Prince is gone. Just the other day I was laughing about that candid photo taken of him on a bicycle. And the week before about his basketball playing on Chappelle’s Show. Yeah, I’m pretty sure it was really him. Especially since moving to Minnesota I feel like Prince comes up in my life pretty frequently. Which…
After finishing an exhausting list of albums from 2015, I’m sick of last year. Nothing good came out. Music is dead. Everything that I listened to was a dreaful waste of time, Alright, I’m not being entirely truthful. But after listening to a slew of new material I’m not interested in seeing what 2016 has…
At this time of year I’m mostly catching up on anything I missed in the past 12 months, reviewing albums for a big list that I will be putting together shortly which no one will read. But that’s okay, I’ve been compiling “Best Of” lists back when I was posting them in my AOL Instant…
I would like to say that I heard of Glen Hansard from his work with The Frames but really, like a lot of men my age it’s just because some girl made us see the film Once. Truth be told, I liked the movie, but the ending still bothered me. SPOILER ALERT: the two musicians…
It’s been over ten years since Sam Beam’s collaboration with the band Calexico was released. The In the Reins Ep was always an interesting listen and it still is. It starts off with “He Lays in the Reins” featuring Spanish Operatic vocals and contains great songs like the bluesy “Red Dust” and the western-ish “A…
Many people are not yet aware that Ryan Adams can write his own songs since his fame has exploded recently only after covering Taylor Swift’s 1989, and most of those fans are probably not aware of anything but instagram, quinoa, and a combination of the two. But Adams has wrote literally hundreds of songs, and…
Recently I discovered this band and wrote a little something before I had a chance to dig into to the full album that dropped in August. And at first listen I was hesitant to write another post about it because I was afraid that it’s sort of gimmicky nostalagia sound would wear off on me…
