Most every September 1st I pour myself a little Big Star. Yesterday it slipped my mind. It was 90 sweaty degrees, the most August of…
Author: Grant Wentzel
The other day I read that Booker’s got a brand new bag. So with a good-to-see-you-again grin, I picked up the pieces and revisited his…
Some alternate titles to this post would include: “It Takes A Village to Kill a Pop Song” “Death By 50 Tracks” Or to quote Tim…
It started as the fallback safety-soundtrack: Always at the ready for dinner parties of mixed company, late nights chasing deadlines, filling cracks in conversations, drowning…
You might notice that since my announcement of entering the brave world of home recording (like it takes a lot of cojones to perform for…
Just finished reading Chuck Klosterman’s Eating The Dinosaur. Twice. It’s not that the prose was so poetic that I had to roll it around my…
The cover of this cheese-ball, spooky-font, mass-market paperback shouted it loud: “The most influential science fiction novel of the 20th century!” I call bullshit. If…
I’ve been off on a new project, the convergence of three things: Number Uno: My most reliable source of blog content — and deepest font…
With only one night in London, we had to make the most of it. Shooting straight to the top of the pops, blasting past all…
Caught the Cracker Acoustic World Tour the other day. Still feeling new in town, curiosity got the best of me to go out and see…