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…
Category: rock and roll it
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…
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…
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…
the first album i ever bought: the new radicals – maybe you’ve been brainwashed too
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 remember my nervous walk into Record Town like my…
preview: j roddy walston & the business @ kings
J. Roddy Walston & the Business rock. Sometimes that’s a cliche, and sometimes it’s the only way to describe what a band does. This band, fronted by the volatile and captivating Walston, rocks, and rocks hard. I had the pleasure of seeing them back in September in Chicago, and they had an incredibly diverse crowd —…
request for submissions: the first album i ever bought
Since people seem interested in this, here’s a template for submitting a piece on The First Album You Ever Bought! Email the piece — 200-300 words minimum, no maximum but do try to contain yourself to not, say, 10,000 words — to asdonkar AT gmail with the subject line The First Album I Ever Bought. Include…
song share: kathleen grace – ‘no place to fall’ (townes van zandt)
Los Angeles country singer/songwriter Kathleen Grace wasn’t on my radar before this cover, but she certainly is now: this is a honest and true cover of one of Townes’ best (and most heartbreaking) songs, the same kind of desperate love and crushing loneliness rolled up together in the more-covered ‘If I Needed You’. Grace’s voice…
brand new kind of photography 