How Do You Find New Music?
I would generally consider the ’90s to be my musical peak. Not only in terms of writing/performing (although it certainly was that), but also in terms of just listening to music. I still love music,...
View ArticleThe Best and Worst Band Names, As Determined By Me
I decided against anything to serious this week. I figured people are getting ready for the Thanksgiving holiday, preparing to face the rabid masses on Black Friday, or going balls-to-the-wall to wrap...
View ArticleThe Grammy Awards: Your Uncool Uncle
“The Grammys is the one award that doesn’t matter to anyone until they win one.” For 15-20 years, I dismissed the Grammys as utter crap. It all started back in 1989, when they decided to branch out and...
View ArticleAuditory Time Machines and The Concert from Hell
A while back on Facebook there was a thread going around to list the first ten albums that sprung to mind that were special to you and had stuck with you over the years. It was a lot of fun, and not...
View ArticleOn The Joy of Discovery
This post mainly serves as a way for me to knock the rust off, as it were. As you may or may not have noticed, I’ve been gone for a little bit. I’ll go into what caused my temporary absence sometime,...
View ArticleLessons Learned from Listening to a ‘Cool’ Radio Station
It’s amazing to me how even in 2014, in an age of self-driving cars and hyper-realistic sex dolls (clearly the two biggest technological advancements of all time, right?), I can still forget what kind...
View ArticleIn Defense of…Amy Winehouse
Her reputation preceded her—in my case, anyway. I was vaguely aware of “Rehab” and thought it was catchy, but it seemed like a gimmicky novelty song playing on people’s nostalgia of the old girl groups...
View ArticleThe Black Dahlia Murder 08/20/17—The Crown Uptown, Wichita, KS
I’ve been a Wichita resident for eleven years, and a metal fan for considerably longer. Until recently, those two things—being a metal fan and residing in Wichita—rarely intermingled, as live bands...
View ArticleReverend Horton Heat/Fishbone 09/30/17—The Cotillion Ballroom, Wichita, KS
You could make a lot of assumptions about the city of Wichita, KS. You could assume it’s a flyover state hellhole devoid of any culture or art, but you’d be (mostly) wrong. You could assume it’s a city...
View ArticleQuarantine Pop Culture Recommendations
So, things are bad. Like, real bad. Bleak, dystopian-novel-bad. I live in Kansas, where some people are so hard-headed that they are ignoring the CDC and spouting… Read more "Quarantine Pop Culture...
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