No one could have guessed the cause/effect relationship set into motion on a cold February morning in 1980. AC/DC’s front-man Bon Scott, just 33 years old and fresh off the success of their “Highway to Hell” album (which reached the top-20 in the U.S.), died, as legendary rock-stars seem prone to do, from excessive...
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Years ago, I went on a date to see Tom Petty play in Southern Michigan. My date was an idiot (and I told him so), but the concert was Tom-tastic. There are currently only three musicians whom I will not hesitate to purchase-without-hearing an album by, and among these is Tommy Boy. I have...
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How many times have you had the opportunity to be the FIRST fans of an upcoming superstar? Think about that for a second while you continue reading. The first time I ever heard Kawnar was in 2008, on an album put out by DFEST (“Dfest is the Midwest’s largest music festival and most comprehensive...
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I was having lunch with my long time pal, Mugs yesterday and reminiscing about some of our past ventures together over the last twenty (minus the time during the Stepford Wife/Body Snatchers phase of my life) years. It was apparent at one point during the discussion that the majority of these shared experiences and...
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When Shannon casually mentioned her desire for one of us to cover Glee I initially shrugged it off, as a show featuring a bunch of whiney 20-somethings masquerading as teenagers and singing ‘80s pop that’s been done to death several gazillion times before isn’t quite geared to my demographic (the embittered-late-20s-unrepentant-anglophile-who-regard-Evelyn-Waugh-as-cutting-edge-pop-culture crowd). However, after...
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Is there anyone left on earth who can still listen to Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing” and find themselves steeped in nostalgia for the good old 80′s? Those of us who are regular consumers of pop culture have had our memory of the song tampered with, to say the least. First, The Soprano’s used the...
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Here’s a statement you won’t hear an atheist make very often: God Bless Jennifer Knapp! Jennifer, as you already know, is the Melissa Etheridge of the Christian music scene: a Kansas girl with her guitar, three chords, and the truth. With smart lyrics, catchy melodies, brilliant and honest song writing, and impressive vocals, she...
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(Coal) “Miner’s Prayer”, by Dwight Yoakam. Seems appropriate. When the whistle blows each morning And I walk down in that cold, dark mine I say a prayer to my dear Savior Please let me see the sunshine one more time When oh when will it be over When will I lay these burdens down...
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Recently I found myself unquestionably drowning in a sea of names and addresses that I was typing up for a party invite list at work. This is normally a task I enjoy quite a bit, however, this list was (inventively) handwritten by three different people making the names exceedingly difficult to read. ( By...
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I’m a music fan, period. I like AC/DC, Beth Hart, Creedence, DCFC, Etta James, Foo Fighters, Garth, Hendrix, INXS, JJ (you pick: either Jack Johnson or Janis Joplin or both), Kings of Leon, Led Zeppelin, My Morning Jacket, Nina Simone, Ozzy, Phish, Quiet Riot, Rage Against the Machine, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Third Eye Blind,...
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