I never need much of an excuse to share a track from Japandroids. I've been blasting a lot of their 2012 album Celebration Rock, so it...

Some time ago, South Bend's The Rutabega joined me for an episode of the Anywhere The Needle Drops podcast. We talked about their...

Ah. Yeah. I'm not sure if it was some dad-related experience from my childhood or just a piece of my genetic code, but man, I can really...

I've long defended the chore of dishwashing. Certainly, I've favored it over all others. Vacuuming is loud, dusty, and I always end up...

This is my favorite post of the year. I get to hide out in my office, headphones on, listening to all the the best in music I've stored...

Monday Music on a Wednesday? Well, it's the holidays. I could pretend I intentionally held this back for Christmas Eve, but really, the...

This is one of those moments where I had a post all lined up for today and then, last night, I heard something awesome. I'm immediately...

I've been driven to the Internet not out of convenience, but out of sheer necessity.  Coming from a small town in rural Michigan, I've...

Sure, it's dipped back into the cold and the wind is as fierce as it's been in months.  But the chafing motion of air is just a sign of...

Is it close enough to write about windows down, dial up, sun shining, warm weather songs for the Spring? Yeah. Probably. After all, it is...

I spent Sunday morning hanging with Thomas and David Moore, of South Bend's The Moore Brothers, recording an interview for an upcoming...

He filled a room. Stories were told; tales of him as a brother, a father, a cousin, or a friend. Stories and jokes and laughs. But the...

Today I woke to sadness. The news came last night.  Charlie, one of the Woodfire crew, had passed suddenly. I don't know that I could say...

A recent tale from Amanda Palmer (Eddie Vedder Gave Me A Trophy!!!!!) seemed like the perfect excuse to share this song and tales of my...

"Gentlemen, we've had some complaints." I was quite confused as the man approached our vehicle.  After all, we'd just arrived.  Still, it...

This is what I did know (or thought I knew): Bob Dylan had a song called Wagon Wheel I could barely recall.  Old Crow Medicine show did a...

It's not a top ten or even a true "Best Of 2013" list.  In fact, some of this music wasn't even released in 2013.  These are simply the...

"i don't wanna worry about dying" In less than a week, I'll be 32.  It's not an idea that warrants much attention in my mind...indeed, I...

Winter gets a bad rap.  The season been given many labels: .               cold                        . .                           ....

One of the pleasures that comes along with following music is the unexpected new that one encounters along the way. Sometimes that "new"...

We turned Tuesday into Saturday. It's but once a year (and sometimes less frequently) that Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers make their way...

And then I followed the unknowing woman into the car wash parking lot. Wait...let's rewind. I recently told the tale of my discovery of...

Sometimes I have a planned track for an upcoming Monday Music and a thing comes along and knocks it to the side.  Thanks to...

Cable TV was a new thing for me somewhere around 8th or 9th grade. Growing up, we could never really afford pay television.  I don't...