Prom night. 1988. I’m wearing a black and white dress, short platinum blonde hair, and fingerless gloves. I think I am a rockstar. My date is wearing a black/silver jacket, imported boots, and purple hair. Niether of us has a car or a license because our parents think we are …

  Margaret Cho’s performance on HBO in 1994 is still hilarious and relevant. She walked across the stage in a leather jumpsuit, said fu** like a valley girl, and talked about homosexuality like it was already a part of everyone’s life. I could relate to everything she said. From having …

Oleg Korolev can be described as a “new master”.  Elements of olde masters infiltrate his work, yet he remains completely modern and original. Spirituality is evident even in his paintings where it is not centralized. The subjects of his work are not “non descript” figments but rather real people…imagined or not. …

As a fan of the Sundays and Portishead, I fell for the clean glass vocals of Lakefield lead singer Kate Rossiter, immediately and hard.The first single “Good Guy” from Swan Songs had me tearing up in 30 seconds. Kate’s gentle, pleading voice against a backdrop of melancholic crescendos and silences …

In Ohio, we had college radio 87.etc way left of the dial and only receivable on perfectly clear airwaves or by moving your radio near something conductive. In the garage of my parent’s house, I heard the Replacements for the first time. It was somewhere around April, definitely a Saturday. …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsSrGos9ioM&feature=youtube_gdata_player Extract a bit of the Pixies, dilute, mix with XTC, and energize with enough guitar to keep the sound just above melancholy and you have Gumshen. Any band that attempts to cover Pink Floyd/Shine on You Crazy Diamond is either completely crazy or completely able to cover the most …