Brian Kelly It's an honor to contribute to the Sock Monkey Sound website. I started as a fan, listening to the podcasts while working. I'm an Urban Engineer by day and a music collector by night. I love U2, David Gray, Damien Rice, Celtic Folk Music and Irish Fight songs. GO GREEN & GOLD! Because of my upbringing in Belvidere, IL, I became consumed with the Irish, it's a family thing so don't hold it against me if I casually yell out "BONO!" every now and then in my articles. Moving to Chicago after college helped me expand my cultural tastes, but I always come back to U2's "ACHTUNG BABY!" What a great irish pop record with a half german title. I can't wait to tell you about all the wonderful music I listen to when I get drunk at night after work with my friends. They usually hate my music picks on the jukebox but I try and pick what I read about so I can learn more about what the kids are listening to now a days! There's some crappy non-irish punk music out there, WTF? I hope you like my articles, they might not be as crazy as some of the staff members I've read here before but they'll definitely be as satisfying as a tall mug of green beer anytime of the year. GO IRISH!
April 4th, 2011 | by Brian Kelly
Something can be said for longevity in rock n' roll and Cheap Trick truly is one of rock's longest running, American, bands. That alone is worth honoring their current existence over. However, for a band that has as many rabid fans, Trixsters, like nerds known as Trekkies, they never quite match their live performance energy with that of their recorded output
March 26th, 2011 | by Brian Kelly
Bassist, Poet, Hero. By Irish Brian Kelly {There’s no secret March is the greatest month in the Roman calendar. Leprechauns,
March 16th, 2011 | by Brian Kelly
Aside from the comments about Neanderthals and Leprechauns, which are as historically false as March 17th itself, Patrick didn't have an ounce of Irish in him. This is a great offense to my homeland, my family, my friends and to my pride; a dent on intelligence created by earth's drunkest peasants. For years I have preached the glory of the man we now know as BONO. And I herby announce March 16th as St. Bono's Day
March 8th, 2011 | by Brian Kelly
... is there no better Fighting Irish to follow Liam Gallagher than Steven Patrick Morrissey? He like Liam, creates much distance between those who love him, and those who loathe the hard truthed, miserably well-quipped bard of the Manchester scene
March 2nd, 2011 | by Brian Kelly
To kick March Madness off, our newest writer, Irish Brian Kelly, wonders if there's no better fighting irishman to kick off a 'Fighting Irish' series with than Liam Gallagher. We have nothing more to say, he says it all, and so poetically. Read on
February 24th, 2011 | by Brian Kelly
"Smart Flesh" by The Low Anthem is an early contender for one of 2011's best releases. The third full length by the Rhode Island quartet continues their musical exploration with Modern American music
February 23rd, 2011 | by Brian Kelly
Anyone hoping Radiohead has returned to classical, song-strucured arrangements, balls-out guitar blasting choruses can stop reading now. It's not that some of us are waiting for Radiohead to return to simpler, band structured, live arrangements in the studio- it's more like we're tired of the Thom Yorke solo act. Radiohead has become 1-dimensional rock band, the kind of band they've dared not to become. "King of Limbs" continue
February 17th, 2011 | by Brian Kelly
Music fans may or may have not heard he's calling it quits, retiring his collective of noisemakers that are better known as LCD Soundsystem, to focus on life after LCD. Retiring it now at the age of 41, Murphy should have no problem keeping busy running his record label, DFA Records, and producing other acts
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