This year has been a good year to be a Jayhawks fan with the release of Jayhawks frontman Gary Louris’s solo CD Vagabonds, produced by Chris Robinson of the Black Crowes, and a long overdue retrospective for the all-star Golden Smog project. Jayhawks fans can now begin salivating in advance over Ready For The Flood, […]
Author: Matt Wardlaw
new Shiny Toy Guns album – a quick thought
Listening to the new Shiny Toy Guns album Season of Poison, which comes out November 4th. The rap in album opener “When Did This Storm Begin” reminds me of this Overall, album sounds pretty good, although I don’t like it as much as the last album. It wraps up nicely with “Frozen Oceans.” And by […]
Eels vinyl and a buncha other stuff
Notice: Tonight at the Rock Hall – User Sets Mode and The Suede Brothers. 7pm. Rock out. So dig this: Fellow Eels fans like me are probably stoked to read the announcement of a vinyl box set for Blinking Lights and Other Revelations. I go to the website and read the details – 4 LP […]
Flashback: Matthew Sweet on David Letterman
This post combines two of my buddy Jack’s favorite subjects – Matthew Sweet and David Letterman! Sweet launched his fall tour last night in Boulder, CO with my current favorite (mostly) girl group The Bridges opening. The tour lands at the Beachland Ballroom here in Cleveland on Saturday night, and the latest Beachland email newsletter […]
I would like to thank the lord below….
On this week’s Californication, Becca volunteered to say grace at dinner, and as soon as that happened, you knew it was going to be interesting. I’ve talked about this elsewhere, but Becca’s character is SO awesome – I think young Madeleine Martin has a long acting career ahead of her. So many great lines in […]
Blue Rodeo announce Blue Road CD/DVD preorder details – Release date set for October 28th
In early September, I was excited to hear that Blue Rodeo had a live CD and DVD release in the works. My excitement faded when I found out that only part of the show – a ten track acoustic set – would be released. This week, specific track listing details were announced for the Blue […]
Setlist: Chimaira @ Roc Bar Cleveland 10-18-08
Last night I put my “metal shoes” on for the first time in a VERY long time. The occasion: A secret show with Cleveland/Strongsville homeboys Chimaira. The band are currently in the midst of working on their next album for Ferret Music with producer Ben Schigel producing for an expected release in 2009. I got […]
Put your 90s sunglasses on and rock out some more……
You had me at “100 %.” This post goes out to Mel, Jose, Kelly, Brian and his broken headphones, and all of my friends that I had so much fun with in the 90s! Description: My good friend Mr. Ducker isn’t a DJ, but he always wanted to make an ultimate ’90s tape, something that […]
Good Listening: Del Amitri @ Slim’s, San Francisco, CA – 4/30/95
This here post is for TJ @ Viva La Mainstream. There are days in my life that if I were to head off to that desert island, I would require only three albums – Waking Hours, Change Everything, and Twisted. Del Amitri mix tracks from all three of those albums into one night of music […]
Vintage Sounds: Jackson Browne and David Lindley – March 1st, 1974
You know, I sympathize with Ringo Starr just a little bit. I can’t even begin to imagine the amount of mail that a Beatle receives. Actually, I think I can visualize it though – the word “voluminous” comes to mind. I get a decent amount of site-related email, and a good percentage lately of that […]