Most punk music is anyone's music, but it belongs to a very specific anyone-one who wants to do a little work. One who wants to invest...

I have found that in times of dysfunction, simple moments are what I remember and savor. Stuff that is unremarkable when viewed in...

In 1973, when I was 6 years old, my dad got a job in Clearwater, Florida in real estate. He had a hard time keeping jobs so this was a...

He might be a father, but he sure ain't a dad. --Androgynous, The Replacements I have a need to understand who my father was. There is...

In high school, I blended in. Maybe that is a blessing. Or is it a curse in disguise? I don't think my teachers would remember me. I was...

Brit Pop was king when Number One Cup made its first trips over to the UK and Europe. Of the bands that were popular, Radiohead was one...

I dreamed about being in a band criss-crossing the country in a dilapidated van, sleeping on floors, playing gritty clubs to indifferent...

Number One Cup was a fortunate band. One day in summer of 1994, I was over at my girlfriend's house in the Edgewater neighborhood on the...

My mom's name is Sarah. She was many things: a success story, a survivor, a stubborn, dedicated and opinionated advocate, and an...

I have had two significant Honda Civics in my life. My friend Dave Brower owned the first one. He had a white 70s Honda Civic hatchback...

There was a time in high school and on through college where I could get a pretty good handle on whether we were going to be kindred...

In my 13th year on the planet, life changed in strange and ugly ways. My family ceased to exist. A war of attrition. Parents divorced....

I used to loathe Phil Collins. I was sick of Genesis. I was sick of his voice and his sappy, goofy lyrics. I was sick of his headband. I...

Paul K is a childhood friend of my best friend Ben. They went to elementary school together. He became a friend of mine in high school....

It wasn't until many years after I bought this LP that I realized the title was a play on words. A Lad Insane. Uh, I can be kind of...

My mom would have turned 85 yesterday. She was born on February 15, 1934 to Mary Hudak and John G. Blatnica in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania....

I met John DeMoulpied one night in June 1995 at a sports bar in a strip mall in Valparaiso, Indiana. He was a Philosophy PHD student at...

This photo was taken a year or so before I was born. My dad was in Chicago on the El platform in the Loop. It was on the wall of every...

WHRB 24 Hour Hardcore Orgy Radio Show Tape From 1983 Playlist: The Germs: Media Blitz SS Decontrol: No Reply (Buzzcocks cover) Bad...

I was on a bus with a group of other college students traveling to East Germany in late Fall 1986. The weather was wet, cold and the...