Top 5 Christmas Songs
Monday, December 15th, 2008 Posted in Music | 9 Comments »Christmas music is playing everywhere, but it's not always good. Every year I find myself on the elusive search for truly good Christmas music. Here are my top 5 Christmas songs: 1. "You Gotta Get Up" by Five Iron Frenzy (Buy ...
Awesome Band Name: Unicorn Dream Attack
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 Posted in Music | 1 Comment »You can't fake an awesome band name like that. Unicorn Dream Attack is an 8-bit electronica band from Minnesota. They make music from things like Game Boys and Nintendos. Most of this type of music grates on me pretty quickly, ...
Sixpence None the Richer is Back
Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in Music | 1 Comment »After a four-year hiatus the band Sixpence None the Richer is back. If you're not familiar with them, they were the buzz band of the late 1990s with the hit song "Kiss Me," but they were also famous for lead ...
What’s Five Iron Frenzy Up To?
Friday, July 4th, 2008 Posted in Music | No Comments »Every year or so I like to follow up on the members of the lost but not forgotten ska band, Five Iron Frenzy, and see what they're up to. It usually happens when iTunes shuffles across a Five Iron track ...
The Top 100 Movies/TV Shows/Music/Books I Don’t Enjoy
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 Posted in Books, Movies, Music, TV | 5 Comments »Entertainment Weekly released lists of the top 100 movies, TV shows, albums and books of the last 25 years. It's kind of interesting to check out the lists and see how many of the top picks I've seen/listened to/read: Movies: 42/100 TV ...
89.3 The Current Playing More Repeats
Friday, March 28th, 2008 Posted in Media, Music, Twin Cities | 3 Comments »OK, enough politics. Apparently my favorite radio station, 89.3 FM The Current—which extols listeners to "expand their playlist"—is shrinking their playlist according to City Pages. With falling ratings songs are getting played more often. In March 2007 one song was played ...
Watching Justin McRoberts
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 Posted in Music | No Comments »I'm a longtime fan of quasi-indie artist Justin McRoberts and I heard last week that he has a new album coming out, Deconstruction. As part of the album releasing festivities, Justin made videos of the entire album and released them ...
The End of CCM Magazine
Friday, February 8th, 2008 Posted in Music | No Comments »I heard a rumor on the Internets a while back that CCM Magazine, the Christian music magazine with self image issues, was no longer going to be published. And if it's on the Internet it must be true. But it turns ...
Eisley’s Combinations
Monday, August 20th, 2007 Posted in Music | No Comments »I'm really digging the new Eisley release, Combinations. I've had my eyes on them for a while, since I picked up their debut. This time around they've grown a bit, though it's still plenty of girl-fronted, airy, melodic rock with plenty ...
Where’s My Five Iron Frenzy?
Wednesday, July 4th, 2007 Posted in Music | 4 Comments »About a week ago I popped in an old Five Iron Frenzy CD while I painted the basement and remembered how much I loved FIF. Loved the music. Loved the lyrics. Loved the concerts. They were my favorite band in ...
