This is just a short entry to post this week’s Critical Mass, a radio show I co-host on KFMG. Normally I co-host with Chad Taylor, or more rarely with Brian Campos, but this week it was just me. Luckily, I had two guests in the studio, Alllison Fegley of Hoyt Sherman Place and Finn Andersen,… Read More Joe’s solo Critical Mass show
Awhile back I saw a listing for a solo “Breaking Bad” performance at Wooly’s and was ready to buy a ticket on the spot. I love the show, which creator Vince Gilligan has described as “Mr. Chips meets Scarface.” I like that description, but Walter White’s journey struck me as something more like Michael Corleone’s… Read More One Man Breaking Bad: the one who mocks
The two biggest influences on my sense of humor have probably been “The Simpsons” and “Mystery Science Theater 3000.” About 90 percent of my references are from the former, but if you hear me say something that sounds less familiar, it’s likely from the latter. I’m can’t remember if my first exposure to the “Cowtown… Read More In the not too distant past: Mystery Science Theater 3000 and me
“This may go on a minute…” John Darnielle. At the first 80/35 in 2008, The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne expressed a desire to return in the festival’s fifth year. Obviously it didn’t happen, but The Maximum Ames Music Festival managed to pull off something similar in its fifth year, getting The Mountain Goats to make… Read More Review: The Mountain Goats at Maximum Ames Music Festival
Hi, welcome to my new blog. Hopefully some of the dozens of people who read my work on the Des Moines Register and Juice websites will find their way here. I have about a week left as the music writer for those publications before I move on to other ventures. Because I’m a music fan, I’ll… Read More Greetings from Live Local Man
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