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Mudcrutch. This article isn’t going to be about Mudcrutch, per se, I just like to say the name: Mudcrutch. This FTV is going to be about the mystical process of coming up with a name for a band and I just happen to be reading Petty: The Biography by Warren Zanes (2015 Henry Holt & […]
I was recently asked, “Where do you get all your story ideas from?” Knowing that the standard “I don’t know” wasn’t going to cut it, I fell back on the old, “Oh, I read about things or see something in passing and an idea will pop into my head.” A perfect example of this […]
News travels slowly to the north end of US 45. Several weeks ago, I was looking at the doings of the Rusty Wright Band and noticed that our old friend Dennis Bellinger was not with the band any more. “Humph, I will have to check this out,” I said to myself. YouTube to the rescue […]
Okay – I have seen it – The Best – a band with Joe Walsh and Jeff ‘Skunk’ Baxter on guitars, John Entwhistle on Bass, Simon Phillips on drums and a few assorted others . . . but this totally passed me by. Clip here was recorded in Japan in 1990 . . . Joe […]
In my Junior High / Senior High years, the frats and sororities at Northern Michigan University would have an annual spring bash called Greek Week. I can’t say how long this went on or if it continues to this day, but I remember it mostly for the festival like finale that was held at Hedgecock […]
Bar Scott is a singer, songwriter, and writer who has recorded seven albums of original songs, and has published one book. Scott engineers, records, and edits most of her vocals and piano in her home studio, but leans on Dave Cook for the heavy studio lifting. Some of her favorite gigs have been in living […]
Alligator Records recently announced their 45th Annivesary Compilation will be released on June 10, 2016. Alligator has been one of our consistant new music pipelines and it seems appropriate to share a little of their history with our listeners. I have read this info in various forms before, but it just hit me that label […]
Jack Spann is a multitalented singer and songwriter. His first solo release comes out on April 19, 2016. It is about time that the world hears his stuff and perhaps that was the genesis of the CD title: Time, Time, Time, Time, Time. Our friend and Milwaukee music scene pipeline Gary Tanin at Daystorm […]
How Nickelback Prepared The World For Postmodern Jukebox By Scott Bradlee Sometimes, inspiration comes from unlikely sources. This was one thought that ran through my head on Thanksgiving Day in 2011, as I found my name in online news outlets everywhere for the first time. It was the first time a video from what would […]
His real name is Brad. Brad Carlson. His father owned a roofing business in Rockford, Illinois and by all accounts, he probably should have ended up working in the family business. Back in 1927, his grandfather had helped put the roof on the building where Brad would eventually attend Junior High so it was certainly […]