Utter mayhem. That’s the only way to describe my first go with Ministry decades back. It was an outdoor show, with a swirling pit that…

While most of the local hipsters and party people were shaking it at various Pride Fest events in Sioux Falls last weekend, a different kind…

“Who here has been saved by Scooter?” From the front row came the question, as a lady flagged down the attention of Scooter Ward, lead-man…

While a prophet may have no honor in his hometown, the sweet-singing guitar player done-good always deserves a hero’s welcome. At the Orion Pub in…

At the age of fourteen, Brady Wrede got his first guitar. “I was driving down 41st Street with my uncle and he said, ‘Have you…

Sometimes a case of chickenpox can change your life. It was “the summer between 7th and 8th grades when I got the chickenpox,” Scott Hudson,…

Bike that extra ten or twenty miles outside of town, hike a few clicks past the end of the trail map, and suddenly necessity kicks…

Reared, as I was, ’round the Great Lakes and the scrambling coal-seamed crags of top-most Appalachia, I always thought that the notion of seasonal equality…

“You ain’t worth shit until you’ve played 500 shows!” Such was the opinion of my buddy’s ex-manager. My pal took some time off from college…