Heavy-hearted in the Midwest since 2011
Tomorrow we celebrate my dad’s 67th birthday. He’s still going to the same building he’s gone to since July of 1964, getting paid to do the same job he went through a journeymen apprenticeship to do. He complains about it, sure. But regardless of how lousy the folks are that he reports to, or the […]
Read More Father & SonThe last couple days have been some of the most mild since spring. It’s been absolutely gorgeous out. So what do I do? I go to the gym instead of getting my cardio in the great outdoors. Oh well. The windows are open and the breeze is rolling through the house making it feel like […]
Read More Reach For The Dead…When you hear a song like “Long As The Sun” -the opener on Medicine’s excellent new album To The Happy Few– you don’t think that this is a band that has essentially been stored in moth balls for 18 years. You think you’re hearing The Beach Boys ran through the Jesus and Mary Chain warpulator. […]
Read More Medicine-To The Happy Fewor, Frodo Baggins and the Magical Scalp. I’m not here to endorse the film Maniac. On the contrary, I’m here to say that if horror films -in particular the serial killer chasing the beautiful girl type- don’t float your boat, then this one is certainly not going to make you think twice about the genre. […]
Read More Mournful Synth-ony For Stylish Trash…What do I see sitting on my front porch? Well it’s a Saturday surprise from one of my favorite record labels Thrill Jockey. White Hill’s So You Are…So You’ll Be showed up 10 days early! Joy!! While I haven’t listened to the bonus 12″ E.P. yet, I can say without a doubt that Dave W […]
Read More New Music For A New SaturdayStuart McLamb is one of the good guys. Like many other indie rock luminaries over the last 20 years McLamb began The Love Language as just a guy recording personal songs in his bedroom. Very personal and emotional, the first Love Language album was a break up album of sorts, filled with rough little pop […]
Read More The Love Language-Ruby RedWhirr are lumped into that genre we Generation X oldsters affectionately call “shoegaze”. And while some of my favorite music is lumped into this category, I have to say it’s getting used way too much. It’s become this generic term used to describe anyone that looks at the floor more than ten seconds in order […]
Read More Whirr-AroundI can remember it rather clearly. I was perusing my favorite blogs back in March -when we were all still aglow from My Bloody Valentine’s triumphant return after two decades of knob turning and hand wringing- when I came across an article on 1537 about a band called White Hills. Mr. 1537 couldn’t have been […]
Read More It’s All About A Feeling: A Conversation with White Hills’ Dave WYou know, I try to be “with it”, and “in the know”. I want to be “up to date” on all the relevant music of today. Even as a kid in short pants growing up in rural Hoosierville I was always buying cassettes at my local record store. If there was some new band everyone […]
Read More Speedy Ortiz- Major ArcanaAfter an extremely long week Friday evening feels pretty damn good. Groceries are bought and put away and there is beer in the freezer becoming extremely cold. One of the local liquor stores has recently improved their craft beer selection tremendously. I was overwhelmed at all the different varieties. I think I started going into […]
Read More New Music, New Brew…Friday Night!