A week ago, Evan posted avideochallenging his just-south-of-30,000 followers to do something creative every day in October. Hardly a novel idea (Kleonhas also championed doing something to this effect several times), but something about the way Evan frames it—“nothing complex, nothing supe...
constructing simple chords by ear until I was able to master the historic “Ballad of Davy Crockett,” much to my brother’s chagrin. Lionizing the king of the wild frontier in first position triads is hardly an auspicious beginning to a jazz guitarist’s career, but in rural 1950s North ...
It is not 2000 again, but Arizona-rockers Ded revived a bit of that nu-metal feel that dominated the turn of the century in rock circles. The four-piece of Joe Cotela, David Ludlow, Matt Reinhard and Kyle Koelsch turned heads with their stellar Suretone debut ‘Mis*an*thrope,’ which ...
Just as frustrating in recent years has been the fading of Wickers' voice. Doctors have looked at his throat and vocal chords and determined nothing is wrong. But the wear and tear of a half-century of "wooing" for the Cubs has prompted his voice to come and go. "I try...