Jimmy Eat World’s Static Prevails Holds Up 25 Years Later
I remember being 16 when I heard Jimmy Eat World’s third full length album, Clarity for the first time and thinking that it was the record I had been searching…
25 Years of Texas Is the Reason
When people today hear the word “emo,” they often aren’t thinking of what I’m thinking of. They aren’t thinking of what people I used to go to shows with, collect…
The Anthology of Emo Volume 2: An Interview With Tom Mullen
Sitting down and speaking with Tom Mullen, I never doubted for a second how seriously he takes emo. This genre of music, whose definition is often misinterpreted, was a subject…
Spotlight: Wilco Did a Lot More Than Try to Break Our Hearts (2002-2005)
Every all-time great band has an era, a run of a few years where fans and music historians alike can look back and say “this is when they made their…
Ben Folds Five and Their Underappreciated Masterpiece
I was a few years late to the party on The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner. The album, which was released on April 27th, 1999, would be the last for…
An Aging Hipster’s Musical Guide to Valentine’s Day
What’s Valentine’s Day without music? No matter if you’re feeling in love, heartbroken or something in between, there are songs to accompany any feeling on this romantic holiday. While there…
Remembering Kurt Cobain 25 Years Later
“Kurt Cobain is dead”. Disc jockey Jay Gilbert, then of Cincinnati’s hard rock station WEBN, was how I learned of Cobain leaving this world. I was sitting in the front…