Today, my friend Mike Lahey joins us, with a guest post on last night’s show. I’ve had the good fortune to make his acquaintance this semester, and his views on and experiences with all manner of cultural phenomena is on par with anyone I’ve met. I’m hopeful that he will grace us with his [...]

Sunday night at Bloomington’s Buskirk-Chumley Theatre provided the unique opportunity to witness two female-fronted musical acts that exist under the specter of very similar and enormously popular groups to exist before them.
New York’s Northern State has found it essentially impossible to escape their “Beastie Girls” image, mostly because they seem to revel in the shambolic [...]

The Southgate House in Newport, Kentucky is a fantastic place to see a show. Sitting right on the mighty Ohio River, the “Birthplace of the Tommy Gun” is a living testament to good old-fashioned Prohibition-era American lawlessness. Despite now being surrounded on all sides by evidence of the indistinguishably modern (a Johnny Rocket’s, Barnes and [...]

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s sudden (and well-deserved) word-of-blog-derived fame essentially rendered this show a double-bill, with as many or more fans showing up for the opener than the slightly-more-established headliner. They started an hour or so late at about 11pm, and immediately launched into two “new” songs, “Me and You Watson” and “Graceful Retreat,” [...]

Bloomington, Indiana, roughly 45 minutes south of Indianapolis, has long been to national touring artists, “somewhere in between” Cincinnati/Louisville and Chicago. Bands often forego Bloomington, and often Indianapolis as well, in lieu of a couple nights extra sleep on the way to the next, ostensibly more well-attended/properly promoted/housed date. If the occasional intrepid artist stops [...]