“Rock ‘n’ Roll High School” is still bad ass 28 years later.

If there ever was a question as to why I have 301 NOFX (pronounced know-eff-ex) songs on my iTunes and NOFX stickers gracing every one of my instrument cases, this past Friday night would be the answer.

Hey, remember that time when there was this music called “Rock”? No, I don’t either. I was in elementary school or middle school when this song came out. So actually I lied, those were the formative years of my life, so I do remember them. I was just too young to be aware of the [...]

Now I don’t have anything against disco, to tell the truth; I actually kind of like it.

Here is a recommendation from Studio One Artist Management founder Tom Carrico: a 1996 live cut of the late folk/jazz/blues/pop singer Eva Cassidy performing Sting’s “Fields of Gold” at Blues Alley. I feel the guitar solo actually brings it down a bit, but her voice so beautifully compliments her fingerpicked guitar that her version most [...]

Let us commiserate (a word we all learned from Blink-182) with our nation in light of recent financial events by listening to a beautifully done spiritual from Louis Armstrong. Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen

There’s just something about the changing of the seasons that always leaves me nostalgic. Albeit it is still pretty hot outside and it’s not officially fall until next week, I can’t help but think of the cooling of the air, the dying of the leaves/mosquitoes, and the wearing of flannel shirts and ripped jeans and [...]

June 24, 2008 – Gainesville, FL ska-punk pioneers Less Than Jake released its 8th full-length album (by my count) GNV FLA on their very own brand new indie label Sleep It Off.