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Spring Mix Tape: It’s May. School’s out for summer…

Spring Mix Tape: It’s May. School’s out for summer…

Hereupon the fifth month of the year, I sat down to make a “Top 5” favorite local rock songs – so far – of 2012. With the death of CD’s, it seems like the MixTape is undoubtedly back to being on actual tape. Actually, some of the songs listed here are available only in the cassette format.

May 2012
Memorized epiphanies – Frontier Ruckus’s new psychic overload

Memorized epiphanies – Frontier Ruckus’s new psychic overload

Singer/songwriter Matthew Milia had no reservations making something epic, monumental, or even oceanic, in scope; an album from which “thoughtful and patient listeners” could “encounter a really rich experience” that they could return to “frequently and interact with in new ways each time.”

April 2012
Inside Big Sky Recordings

Inside Big Sky Recordings

If there’s anything Geoff’s learned it’s this: To remember to use your ears…and that rock bands never show up on time.

March 2012

Ruminations on modern (local) music fables; our own thing, our own time, our own story

February 2012

Go it alone

Okay, so, I’ve got my own blog. Whenever I feel like it, I click “post” and I ruthlessly relay scrolls of (hopefully insightful) essays about music to the world.

January 2012

Rock this way – a way to come together?

Chris Taylor said there needs to be more unity in “music community.”

December 2011

Plastic funky donuts on the shores of the Huron with Charlie Slick


“I’m not eating a lot of sugar these days,” Charlie Slick says and I tell him I’m cutting out gluten, myself.

November 2011

The Devil’s Music Course: Curriculum—Zombie Ball; YpsiFest

Halloween is a time for the freaks to come out; a time for one’s inner devils or inner witches, or any kinds of monsters (from mummies, to mongoloids) to be let out for fired-up nights of dashed dances and amplified howls.

October 2011

A beautiful autumn: Misty Lyn and Jim Roll readying new albums!

Misty Lyn’s music might have always been beautiful, but it carried with it a nuanced darkness...

September 2011

Cassette your sights: Tapes far from novelty, they’re sensible

8-Track Cartridges will never be punk rock. I can’t see them coming back anytime soon. Then again, perhaps I shouldn’t speak too soon.

August 2011
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