It seemed like a good idea at the time, the time being three years ago when Best Coast released their debut album with the fantastic…
Author: Grant Wentzel
Ninety percent of my playing out these days happens on a Sunday morning. And even though I’ve been doing it for years, I’m still learning…
Much as I hate moving, a new home does bring hope for a new garden. Spade in hand, I survey my new domain, looking for…
I love his stuff, but I fear it won’t last. Despite what the KLF say about it, the tune is the thing. It’s the musical…
There’s a pessimism here that I can’t believe in anymore. I know it well, as a clean-scrubbed child of the 80s it lurked all around…
I’ve never worked so hard to finish a book. After reading William Morris’s The Well At World’s End, I can feel every aching step, every…
The annual family Christmas album came together almost on time this year. I’m always pushing it, no matter when I start, but deadlines produce results,…
“Hey, buy this for me for Christmas.” So my wife and I have this unspoken arrangement. We spend so much time trying to get Christmas…
So I joined a book club. Like most good things in life, what we want and what we find we need are different things. Had…
So I finished up another of my semi-annual record review/recording projects. Below is “Don’t Change,” a track from last year’s Strange Negotiations by David Bazan.…