10:50 a.m. I’m sitting here typing with The’Mats’ “Please to Meet Me” coming through the headphones. My ass is kind of sore because I’ve spent the past 24 hours kicking myself, hard, for not going…
Posts tagged The Replacements
It’s Sunday & I’m Boring: Couch Potatoes & Zucchini Edition
This Boring Sunday started at the crack of 8:30 solely because the heavens opened up and dropped copious amounts of water into my open windows. I would have enjoyed many more winks of shut-eye, though…
Hypocrisy & The ‘Mats Reunion
In the summer of 1995 I was a twenty-three-year-old bridge-burning sassafrass totally high on the emotions she could incite with her writing. That was the summer I worked at the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram as an…
You Make My Dreams Come True: THE ‘MATS ARE REUNITING
I HAVEN’T STOPPED TYPING IN CAPSLOCK SINCE ABOUT 9:05 P.M. WHEN MY WHOLE WORLD EXPLODED INTO RAINBOWS AND UNICORNS WITH THE NEWS THAT THE REPLACEMENTS WERE REUNITING. When the news hit my computer and phone…
14 reasons you should get ‘Songs for Slim’ if the whole good cause thing isn’t quite enough reason for you
It feels like it should be a sort of holy day here in the house of Jodi. I mean it’s not every day, or ever, that a new ‘Mats EP is released. There should be…