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Matthew Ryan – Lessons In Humanity: Talking Hope and Advocacy
“Humility is a good thing and sadly we tend to usually only have humility through struggle. I don’t know what that says about the human psyche. Maybe I’ve gotten delusional in my older age. That’s called survival, I think.” - Matthew Ryan Back some time in the early 1990’s, in an America suffering the hangover of ‘80s excess, [...]
Cam Waters – Magical Mystery Train
Cam Waters Magical Mystery Train CW Music - 2008 Musicians: Cam Waters- vocals, guitar, slide guitar, hi-hat cymbal/ Marc Anderson- drums, percussion/ Liz Draper- upright bass, dreadlock beads/ Miles Johnston- cornet/ Kari Larson- mandolin, lap steel/ Dan Newton- accordion/ Lisa Schultz- nylon string banjo, foot/ Dr. Tom Schaefer- [...]
Black Diamond Heavies – Alive As Fuck
Black Diamond Heavies Alive as Fuck Alive Records - 2010 Band Members: James Leg (aka John Wesley Myers) – Vocals, Keys/Van Campbell – Drums, Vocals Track Listing: Take a Ride/Hambone/Might Be Right/Bidin My Time/White Bitch/Loose Yourself/Happy Hour/Leave it in the Road/Fever in my Blood The Black Diamond Heavies are a pair of [...]
The 757s – Freeway Surrender
The 757s Freeway Surrender Automatic Recordings - 2009 Band Members: Jimmy Peterson-Guitar & Vox/Paul Pirner-Bass & Vox/Steve Sutherland-Drums & Vox/Seth Zimmerman-Guitar & Vox Track List: Amateur/Shirley MacLaine/Crash and Fade/Atrophy/Always on the Outside/Top of the World/Teenage Logic/Stagnation/Like [...]
The Mother Hips – Pacific Dust
The Mother Hips Pacific Dust Camera Records - 2009 Musicians: Tim Bluhm- vocals, guitar, keyboard/Greg Loiacono- guitar, vocals, piano/ Paul Hoaglin- bass, vocals, other stuff/John Hofer-drums, percussion Track Listing: White Falcon Fuzz/Third Floor Story/Jess OXOX/ The Lion And the Bull/One Way Out/All In Favor/Pacific Dust/Young Charles [...]
Subdivider – Self Titled
Subdivider Self Titled Independent - 2008 Band Members: Adam Fekete-Vocals,Guitar, Piano/ Aaron Fabbrini- Bass/ Jake Nyberg- Drums/Lead guitar on “Season to Season” Mark Grundhoefer/ Tom Hunter- Piano and Hammond on “Strike A Balance” Track Listing: Paper Crushing Stone/Strike A Balance/Dorsia/Anne Marie/Beneath My Skin/Action And [...]
Guitar Town
When I first started playing and trying to cop tones, the sound most of my peers and I thought was the best was Eddie Van Halen’s on their first album, Van Halen I. It had outrageously high gain, yet sounded almost pretty with its juiciness. I also dug the tones of John Sykes, with his beefy tone with lots of fuzzy sizzle on top, and the first [...]
Reel Kool – The Princess And The Frog
REEL KOOL FILM REVIEWS By: Jesse Sawyer The Princess and the Frog (2009, dirs. Ron Clements and John Musker) I haven’t seen a mainstream two-dimensional animated film since... since... Well, to be honest, I can’t recall the last one. Disney’s last 2-D release was “The Emperor’s New Groove,” which I missed, and since then the [...]
Sightlines – Tim O’Reagan & Friends
Tim O’ Reagan & Friends The 318 Cafe’ In Excelsior Saturday, 12/12/09 by Tom Hallett photos by Jay Smiley Two fellow Jayhawks, Soul Asylum co-founder/ guitarist Dan Murphy, and a couple of like-minded young ‘uns gathered ‘round ‘Hawks drummer/singer/songwriter Tim O’Reagan on a chilly mid-December evening recently to lend their [...]
Going Rouge – by Helm Matthews
The Mall of America. Minnesota’s homage to crass commercialism. It is a place for banal conversation and corporate coffee—the template suburban white. I love it here. I can walk for hours, getting my exercise and finding inspiration for characters that will inhabit my stories. But on a Monday in early December I found myself at the mall for [...]
