Iowa Jam: The Grateful Dead at the UNI-Dome 2/5/1978
The word is it was a cold night with a biting wind that brought the real world temperature to around 20 below. The sky was overcast on that Sunday evening in Cedar Falls, Iowa and there was a chance of...
View ArticleRiot Fest: The Music Fest for Grownups
It’s not easy being a grownup music fan. And the older you get, the harder (and weirder) it becomes. Your peers (i.e., your neighbors and your kids’ friends’ parents) can’t even pretend to understand...
View ArticleRose City ‘Til I Die
By the time this publishes I should be barreling down the road in a van packed with my wife, my son, three dogs, a cat and two of my most cherished guitars. We’ll be heading east, away from a city we...
View ArticleFly Like a Butterfly, Sing Like Mariah
If you fly frequently you undoubtedly accumulate “miles” as part of a loyalty program. Given a sufficient cubic ton of these “miles” you’re able to book even more air travel, although you probably find...
View ArticleSail On, Sailor
According to Cruise Market Watch, “Worldwide, the ocean cruise industry has an annual passenger compound annual growth rate of 6.63% from 1990 – 2020,” and for 2018, they’re estimating that some...
View ArticleReturn of the Village Green Preservation Society
As I am someone who has long enjoyed the music of the Kinks and the Doors, you might think that I would be over the proverbial moon with the recent announcements—one iffier than the other—that (1) the...
View ArticleWhen KISS rocked Cadillac, Michigan
Every single thing about this article from FOTO magazine is amazing: “When KISS Rocked Cadillac – KISS was on the cusp of superstardom when a small, conservative town in northern Michigan invited the...
View ArticleMissed opportunity: Come on Pixies, you know we love you!
You may have heard that the Pixies are celebrating the 30th anniversary of Surfer Rosa with a big box set. Three CD and Three LP editions out on September 28th, 2018 with new artwork reimagined by...
View ArticleNew Stick Arounds Video: Get You Back
Video: Stick Arounds – “Get U Back” From Ways to Hang On, due this fall on GTG Records. The single is available for free download from bandcamp. Goddamn, marionettes are creepy. There’s something about...
View ArticleNew Moody Little Sister video: I Got Soul
Video: Moody Little Sister – “I Got Soul” Single out now on 8 Ball Records. Full disclosure: I once washed dishes with Moody Little Sisters Rob Stroup and Naomi Hooley. We were up in Washington, at the...
View ArticleGodspeed, Bandit
It’s hard to describe just how unstoppable Burt Reynolds was at his peak in the late 70s, but here’s a quick (if somewhat disconnected) example: I had a babysitter when I was in elementary school whose...
View ArticleThe Resolectrics – Open Seas
Any bluesman will tell you it’s a game of sleight of hand. They all employ little tricks that confound and surprise you, which is essential for keeping music that is based on simple structures and...
View ArticleRiot Fest 2018: Whole Lotta Shakin’
I’ve been attending big music festivals in Chicago every summer since 2005, but it’s been many many years since I arrived anywhere near early enough to see the opening wave of bands. There’s always...
View ArticleThe Chain, Broken
Two of the things that have long fascinated me are (1) what makes a band a band and (2) why performers continue to perform long after ordinary people move on to something else in their lives besides...
View ArticleTicketstubs: Marilyn Manson in Grand Rapids, 1999
I miss having a friend with access to a corporate luxury box at the local arena. It’s the perfect way to see artists you don’t care about enough to pay for your own tickets. [DP disagrees. -ed.] I know...
View ArticleIntroducing the Midnight Caller Sound Magazine
I like sound collages. I always have. Well, at least since I got my own copy of the White Album and listened through “Revolution 9” with more than a little bit of excited fear. Not to be too...
View ArticleWho Do They Think They Are?
Although I have been MIA from this page for some time now, something that needs to be addressed has come to my attention, something far worse than I had originally thought as I looked into things a bit...
View ArticleLuther Russell – Medium Cool
We get a lot of press material at GLONO. Like…a LOT. Back in the days before press kits went digital, Jake and I would get hollered at by the postal workers where our PO Box was in Chicago because...
View Article2018 Soundscan Data: Total Music Sales and Streams
I’d been holding off on releasing this post until Billboard published Ed Christman’s year-end wrap-up online, but it looks like it’s going to be print-only. So go out and buy the magazine if you want...
View ArticleMidnight Caller Episode 5
He was a spaz. So bad that he once slapped a teacher right across the face. We couldn’t believe it. The whole class froze for a moment. And then sped up very fast like an old film projector breaking...
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