Because I didn't get the chance to have much of a relationship with my father, I have spent many years wondering what I missed and how...

I am a musician. No, I am just a drummer. Let me explain. When it comes to family musical pedigree or innate musical talent, I have very...

Can't wait to live my life. Can't wait to get the pictures back. Don't disappear. (From the song Pembroke by SoulSide from the LP Hot...

I vividly recall lying on a bare mattress on the floor in an unheated room in Reading, England. It was Number One Cup's first European...

Tommy Keene died on November 22, 2017. He was 59. This is not a tribute or an obituary or a piece of rock criticism. It is a...

I went to St. Aloysius Gonzaga for high school from 1980 to 1984. It was in the shadow of the Capitol in Washington, D.C. Right across...

Brian Fallon, a solo artist as well as a member of the Gaslight Anthem, has "Bell Bottom Blues You Made Me Cry" tattooed on his neck. I...

Soul Asylum has been on my mind a lot lately. At a party last weekend, I was talking to a friend I hadn't seen for a while about meeting...

Hello. You navigated here and found this blog. You would be correct to ask why it needs to exist in the first place. It doesn't need to...

Today I had the disquieting and surreal feeling of what it might be like to witness my own eulogy. A collection of videos "magically"...

I can trust the liner notes for the first Fire Show LP more than I can trust my own memory. More often than not, if I am not...

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...