A year ago today, an earthquake ripped through Northern Honshu, the main island in Japan. It was followed by a devastating tsunami that took out many of the impoverished fishing villages and rural towns in the North. While the rebuilding…

Back in 1985, David Barbe of Mercyland sang, A three-man band is bound by natural limitations.  How bound must we be? Is there a rule that says we bank on imitation And limit songs to only three Minutes and parts,…

High Dive is a queer punk band from Bloomington, Indiana. This shouldn’t be an especially shocking sentence in this day and age, and to most of you it probably isn’t. But here’s a question for you: how many openly queer…

Hey, there, sportsfans. Now that I’ll no longer by taking classes (woot!) and having real person hours (awww) I’m going to change the update schedule starting NEXT week. Mondays will be added. But to tide you over through the weekend,…

Real talk: I started this blog because I knew this album would be coming out and I wanted everyone in the universe to know about it. (So, like, all 20-40 of you regular visitors.) I wondered how I could spread…