INTRODUCING YOU TO BANDS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW, BUT TOTALLY SHOULD. The Hot Sprockets Really good rock bands can sometimes be hard to define. Usually when I’m writing this article, the band I’m writing about is something-rock, defining their obvious leanings. Punk, rock, psych rock, alt-country-rock…. But with The Hot [...]
INTRODUCING YOU TO BANDS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW, BUT TOTALLY SHOULD. Sheer Mag Sheer Mag is the late 70’s rock throwback band that everyone needs. Fronted by the gravely howl of Tina Halladay, this Pennsylvania based group infuses its low-fi rock with elements of danceable punk. Where some bands following [...]
INTRODUCING YOU TO BANDS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW, BUT TOTALLY SHOULD. PMMP Helsinki based PMMP should be more well known in the United States, given the high levels of Finnish speakers living in our inner cities and throughout the midwest. It’s hard to stress the appeal their genre crossing music [...]
INTRODUCING YOU TO BANDS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW, BUT TOTALLY SHOULD. The Feelies The Feelies are a band that I listened to slightly in the early nineties then promptly forgot about. This was when I was introduced to The Velvet Underground, Gang of Four and Television. I wish I had [...]
INTRODUCING YOU TO BANDS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW, BUT TOTALLY SHOULD. Peach Kelli Pop This week I’m writing about Peach Kelli Pop. An LA based band that produces some fantastically tight, all-girl surf punk. Harmonious lyrics about subjects like lost loves, imagined phone calls to former relationships and self doubt [...]
It’s been eight years since Life of Dad launched. Eight years since the dream of our founder came to be. Eight years of building the ultimate destination for dads. Eight years of growth, changes, highs and lows, hits and misses. In that time we’ve grown our awesome community to one [...]
INTRODUCING YOU TO BANDS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW, BUT TOTALLY SHOULD. David Byrne Talking Heads is one of my all time favorite bands. Even if you didn’t follow them, you know at least a portion of their canon. Fronted by David Byrne they routinely dominated the charts, turning their versions [...]
INTRODUCING YOU TO BANDS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW, BUT TOTALLY SHOULD. Gingerlys I started listening to Gingerlys when I recognized my hometown of Long Beach, NY in one of their videos. They join bands like Public Enemy (Brother’s Gonna Work It Out) and Beastie Boys (She’s On It) who used [...]
INTRODUCING YOU TO BANDS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW, BUT TOTALLY SHOULD. ShitKid Loads of bands out there do llo-fi, sparse punk, but ShitKid tends to stand out among them. Most of her music features fuzzy guitars, a simple drum beat and fantastic lyrics from this 24 year old Swede. Songs [...]
[et_pb_section bb_built="1"][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text _builder_version="3.0.97" background_layout="light"] Humans like to be clean. Children like to be dirty. Therefore, children cannot be human. Yes, it’s an easily disprovable fallacy, but allow me to present the facts before you bring biology, observation and real facts into the argument. I believe that parents are [...]
