The Current is urging its listeners to help them compile a list of the of the 893 Essential Albums. They are asking people to submit their personal Top 10 lists and share them on social…
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Top 25 Most Listened to Songs of 2016 (Or boy howdy do I know how to wallow)
Are you super sad that it’s taken me like seven entire days to finally get around to posting the Top 25 most listened to songs of 2016? I don’t blame you. I kind of am…
Random Flashback: That’s the Sound of the Men
This random flashback brought to you by hearing Sam Cooke’s “Chain Gang” on the radio this afternoon. The Current’s is playing a lot of Sam Cooke this week because he’s the artist of the week…
A Tale of Two ‘Born for Me’s, or Paul Westerberg is an Unreliable Narrator (probably)
In case you don’t know, and maybe I’ve never explicitly stated here in the pixels of I Will Dare, but the main conceit of The Beast is that a 50something former rock & roll singer…
Official Soundtrack for The Beast v4: Bad Bad Hats
Some people prefer to write in silence. I do not understand those people. Like a one-hit wonder by Autograph, the only time I turn it down is when I’m sleeping it off. Or, in less…
Random Flashback: Full-time Filth & Nowhere Left to Go
This random flashback brought to you by hearing ?(Don’t Go Back to) Rockville ? by R.E.M. on the radio this morning. In the Fall and Winter of 1994 Amy Skal and I took to the…