My otherwise dreary Tuesday afternoon was livened up today with the news that Trapper Schoepp has a new album coming out. I wrote about Trapper a few weeks back. He is a singer-songwriter based in Wisconsin. The album features a song called “On, Wisconsin”, named after the University of Wisconsin Badgers fight song. The song... Continue Reading →

The best argument I can make for keeping an open mind about different musical genres and bands is that for the better part of my life one of my favorite bands is a four piece dream pop outfit that broke up in 1996 after releasing only two albums. In my musical biography, Belly are an... Continue Reading →

To the best that I can remember, the last time I cried was when David Bowie died. I was driving to work the morning he passed away and listening to ‘Changes’ and it got to the line “Time may change me, But you can't trace time” and I lost it. I had to pull over.... Continue Reading →

  If you pick up a bible and turn to the first book of Chronicles you’ll find a long list of names. The names are the lineage of Jesus, tracked back to Adam in the garden of Eden. It’s generally known as ‘The Begats’, as in Adam begat Seth and on down the line. The... Continue Reading →

Periodically I get the urge to writing something along the lines of a musical biography. The basic idea being tracking all the music I’ve loved and talking about what was going on at the time that I discovered it, or why it meant a lot to me. It always sounds like a fun project with... Continue Reading →