Kurt Cobain – April Fools
What Nirvana influenced in a short amount of time made fools out of everyone within an earshot. Safe to say, enough time has passed to rule judgment down onto music’s minions. Nirvana was pretty f*cking good but what they unwillingly helped create stinks. It’s lingered longer than most ex-major label reps could have dreamt of. Cobain knew this early on; he knew he had created a landfill large enough to dump 20 plus years of musical garbage into.
Cheap Trick – April Fools
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…
Wisconsin | Demolishing Democracy, A Cheap Trick
That is the true crime- the demolition of democracy was thrown down like a pile driver to the head in Wisconsin tonight. Unlike Illinois where corruption and delusional leadreship has run so rampant for decades that we believe it’s normal, I don’t expect Wisconsin to be quiet about this ruse like it’s neighbor’s state has behaved; like a herd of depressed, positively delusional, pathetic, over worked, over taxed…
Candy Golde | Wilco, Cheap Trick, & Eleventh Dream Day members form Windy City Supergroup
Nick Tremulis, Bun E. Carlos, John Stirratt, and Rick Rizzo have gathered their chops to form the first worthy Chicago area, veteran indie, supergroup, since… well… you tell us. (Golden Smog does not count.) Meet Candy Golde…
The Boxer Rebellion – Interview with Adam Harrison
“… quite a few people expected us to go for the jugular with a record after ‘Union’ but we were not going to be tempted by that, we care too much about the music.” – Adam Harrison, of The Boxer Rebellion
Yoko Ono | Q&A With Sock Monkey Sound
SMS Interview Q&A with Yoko Ono | Sock Monkey Sound had the opportunity to interview Yoko Ono, 77 years and running strong…
FOX39′s “Rockford Idol” winner sings Leonard Cohen’s, “Hallelujah.” He’s from Naperville, by the way.
Operation Rockford Fail: A sexy, blond highlighted, orange skinned boy from Naperville, IL, win’s Fox39′s, “Rockford Idol” contest.
By Andy Whorehall
