Sometimes people you love have flaws. Take my friends Erin, Willie, and Jesse, for example: they’re Kentucky basketball fans, but I look past that flaw, because I love them, and they’re my friends. And Erin and Willie, as the Breedings, have written a great Christmas song, the sentiment of which is one that every college…
Author: brandnewkindof
Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.
video share: frank turner – “river” (joni mitchell cover)
Seasonally appropriate Frank Turner cover.
the first album i ever bought: monty python – monty python sings!
The First Album I Ever Bought is an occasional guest post series where friends, family, and strangers talk about, well, the first album they ever bought. A new piece runs every Wednesday, and sometimes more often. If you’d like to submit, please see the guidelines here. Long before I was a music geek, I was…
album review: mason jennings — always been
Mason Jennings’ newest album, Always Been, takes its title from track 2, “Patti & Robert”, where the phrase is a repeating chorus; the song itself was inspired after Mason met Patti Smith at a benefit concert in New York City and read Just Kids while flying back to Minnesota. So basically that’s a sentence that…
worth getting up for in november
Worth getting up for in November: Gross Ghost’s CD release show; having my offer on the townhouse accepted; cold weather; the start of Grimm season 3; four day weekends; the satisfaction of cleaning out your closet; The Newport Effect; the new Mason Jennings album; the song about Patti Smith on the new Mason Jennings album;…
the first album i ever bought: black sabbath – we sold our souls for rock and roll
The First Album I Ever Bought is an occasional guest post series where friends, family, and strangers talk about, well, the first album they ever bought. A new piece runs every Wednesday, and sometimes more often. If you’d like to submit, please see the guidelines here. I was a twelve year old girl in rural…
gross ghost ‘public housing’ cd release show
What a fantastic rock and roll night, full of people I love doing amazing things. Full set, with Last Year’s Men and Schooner, here.
album review: gross ghost – public housing
Public Housing is a break up album; there’s nothing to hide that from the opening lines of “Seeds”: nothing to do, nothing to say. “Seeds” echoes and weeps with the clarity of the drums under Mike Dillon’s aching vocals in the first chorus. The vocals maintain in that way over the rest of the disc,…
the first album i ever bought: n.w.a. – straight outta compton
The First Album I Ever Bought is an occasional guest post series where friends, family, and strangers talk about, well, the first album they ever bought. A new piece runs every Wednesday, and sometimes more often. If you’d like to submit, please see the guidelines here. EXPRESS YOURSELF When I was a suburban Chicago 4th grader,…
the first album i ever bought: run-dmc – self-titled
The First Album I Ever Bought is an occasional guest post series where friends, family, and strangers talk about, well, the first album they ever bought. A new piece runs every Wednesday, and sometimes more often. If you’d like to submit, please see the guidelines here. I bought my first album around the time that music…
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