Heavy-hearted in the Midwest since 2011
It’s been 14 years since the passing of MCA, aka Adam Yauch, of the Beastie Boys. When one third of the long-running rap group left it seemed like that was it. The Beastie Boys were done. Remaining members Ad-Rock(Adam Horovitz) and Mike D(Michael Diamond) did re-emerge 6 years later with a Beastie Boys memoir and […]
Read More Mike D: Thank YouArrived at 6:40am Thursday, Sept. 3rd at Parkview Memorial Hospital, Cardiology Center for my heart catheterization. I honestly didn’t know what to expect. For one, I’ve never had one. Two, the internet is full of information that can and can’t be helpful. Most of them are outpatient, but there are instances where you have to […]
Read More Stent ManIt’s currently 88 degrees, and with the heat index it’s around 150. Okay, not that hot but it might as well be. Walking outside is like stepping into a microwave on high cooking a Hot Pocket. It’s the kind of heat that within two minutes your underwear is damp. 10 minutes they’re soaked. After 20 […]
Read More It’s gettin’ hot in herrrIt was a great weekend. Saturday was pretty quiet, just did some grocery shopping, my wife and I got lunch, and we made taco pizza for dinner. Enjoyed a couple fall-ish beers and spun some records. We watched the movie Good Fortune with Keanu Reeves, Aziz Ansari, and Seth Rogan. It was a decent watch. […]
Read More Gloomy MondayThere’s something comforting about a new Dinosaur Jr album, because no matter what point you jumped on the J Mascis train the band will always sound like Dino Jr. Sure, the early stuff was messier, noisier, and more in line with the no wave sound of early 80s NYC. But starting with ’91’s Green Mind […]
Read More Dinosaur Jr : There NearThere’s a dank haze that emanates from James McKeown’s latest outing as Hawksmoor. After a couple immense and Komische/Berlin School-heavy records with the great Soul Jazz Records -plus an amazing collaboration with Ivan The Tolerable- Hawksmoor has returned to the crypt of Library of the Occult for Yclept Thorn. This is no ordinary electronic folk […]
Read More Hawksmoor : Yclept ThornWe had a great weekend. This past weekend we celebrated my dad’s 80th birthday. It was a surprise party. Our original plan was to have a get together at my brother’s house, but the weather was calling for rain Saturday afternoon, so I decided instead we’d all just meet at one of our favorite Mexican […]
Read More A Fine WeekendI’ll admit, the first couple things I heard from John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter, and Daniel Davies’ latest LP Cathedral I wasn’t that excited about. It was touted as their “heavy metal” album, and while there were chugging guitars and heavy rock drumming going on, it just didn’t seem like a musical trip I wanted to […]
Read More John Carpenter : CathedralThat man or woman behind the curtain, is in fact, you. Or me. Or your uncle Frank or brother Steve. The wizard is behind the curtain according to Dorothy and her farm hands-turned scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly lion friends. But as Glenda the good witch shared with Dorothy at the end of The Wizard […]
Read More Pay Attention To The Man(or Woman) Behind the CurtainYou remember the early 2000s boom of post-punk and new wave bands that came out of the druggy New York lower east side club scene? It was so big there was even a book written about it. Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Jonathan Fire Eater, DFA Records, Interpol; as well as bands like The White Stripes, The […]
Read More The Strokes : Reality Awaits