So I’ve been trying for a week to write about the night I decided the time had finally come to sit down, drink a Captain Morgan and Diet Coke like it was 1995 and Kelly…
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Share My Outrage: Using The Kinks’ ‘Father Christmas’ to Sell Stuff
You’re familiar with the song “Father Christmas” by The Kinks, yes? Of course you are. It’s a disturbing song about poor kids mugging someone with asking for money and a job for his dad. You…
The World Has Turned & Left Me Here, or Weezer’s Blue Album makes me feel old
Now that the weather has gotten slightly chillier than it was before, The Tibbles have totally conned me into giving them rides to school. This is not because they want to spend more time with…
My Heart Explodes in Joy: The Replacements Reunite for Covers EP
Does this one-day reunion augur a new tour or album from the Replacements, one of the best American bands of the Eighties? “It’s possible,” Westerberg says. “After playing with Tommy last week, I was thinking,…
A few thoughts brought on by the 28th Anniversary of The ‘Mats ‘Let it Be’
And on this day in 1984 the majesty and wonder that is The Replacements’ “Let it Be” was unleashed on the world. I was 12 and had no idea. I’m pretty sure in 1984 my…
He wants to listen to Bob Dylan & yet I have the antiquated notions about music
I was babysitting The Tibbles last week when the new Paul Westerberg song hit my Gmail. Because I have the job of a fifteen-year-old girl, I reacted like a fifteen-year-old girl when I saw an…