My ears get bored very quickly, so I've been on the hunt for new music as of late. It also probably doesn't help my cause when I find a song I like, it goes into heavy rotation for a month or two of commuting...over and over and over again. It's the one major issue I have with iPod playlists. Convenient yes, but one can only listen to a[...]
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In my teen years, if we were friends, you probably received a mixtape from me. I probably spent hours pouring over cassette after cassette trying to find the most perfect song that I thought you might just love. More often than not, it was indie music. Something obscure you'd never heard before, and my hopes were that you'd love a certai[...]
So today, I have been sitting here staring at a blank screen, wondering what in the heck I'm going to write about. I had absolutely no clue until I started to weed my way through all the bucket challenges and first day of school pictures on Facebook—procrastination at its best. Ya, no, you will not see me dumping ice-cold water on my h[...]
Normally, I’m all about indie bands (please check out PHOX from my hometown of Baraboo...go, now, oh wait, no, no don’t do that…read this first and then go check out PHOX) As soon as the band of the day starts to make its way to alternative nation, I’m on a search for the next group of bearded boys in raw denim…but then there a[...]
It’s been a couple of weeks since I posted a “What I’m listening to today…” blog post. As John Cusack says in High Fidelity, “The making of a great compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You gotta kick off with a killer, to grab attention. Then you got to take it up a notch[...]