Listen, I know that this song is not  politically correct, and yes, there's an argument to be made that it is offensive. I am all for body p...

What is Bandcamp Friday, you may ask? All you need to know is right  here . It's always good to support independent artists and independent ...

Part 1 can be found here… We got to Savi’s Workshop just over 15 minutes early, as the reservation says to do, only to find that there was no

Listen, I don't make the rules, but what I do know is that you can't celebrate Polish-American heritage and polka music without playing "B...

ALT: The More You Know

What is Bandcamp Friday, you may ask? All you need to know is right  here . It's always good to support independent artists and independent ...

This week was not as busy as last week, but it was still fairly packed with tubed meats, family time, MSU football, more family time, and more

In celebration of Pulaski Days this week in Grand Rapids I am higlighting my favorite Polka songs. I admit, I own only a couple of Polka CDs...

Last week Shalee flew out for a work conference in Orlando, leaving on Saturday, September 12. Weeks ago we decided that since she was down there

Critics have said the data could lead to U.S. citizens being kicked off the voter rolls, but the justices noted the law prohibits broad voter purges in the weeks leading up to an election.

As I said when I posted about Front 242 , after just over a year of starting this blog I can't believe that it took me this long to post abo...

Mapped: Minimum Wages Around the World Switzerland tops the dataset at $3,804 per month, based on a regional rather than nationwide minimum wage.

I am old enough to remember Grimes before she dated, and later had children with, Elon Musk, back when she was a 20-something Canadian woman...

Last week was a blur. I worked late on Monday, then did laundry and packed, worked the morning of Tuesday, then jumped on a plane to Midway, then

Note: The timestamp will say September 14, but I am actually posting this a week late because I neglected to post it on time before traveling for

While I was on PTO last week my friend Jeff, the same guy that suggested the band Chalk to me back in February , asked me if I had ever hear...

Closing out the "Welcome Back to Old School" theme this week is another classic, but also sadly, a one-hit wonder, in the form of When In Ro...

Trump, who often accuses mainstream media outlets of writing "fake news," said on Truth Social that those outlets shouldn't be allowed to "FICTION and LIES."

Continuing with the "Welcome Back to Old School" this week, I give you Kon Kan, a group who for many is probably considered a musical footno...

As I was driving around this weekend I was thinking about how the summer is coming to a close, fall is on its way, and the kids are back in ...

My anxiety has been giving me insomnia as of late, so to combat it I throw on some earbuds and listen to ambient music to distract myself en...

Keeping with the synth and post-punk mood I have been in lately, this is a recent rediscovery. It has to be, the track is 20 years old, but ...

Though not an offical theme, I have been in a synth mood the last few posts, so far be it for me to deviate from that. Today, I give Empathy...

I probably should have posted something last week or scheduled something for Saturday about taking a short break, but I didn’t, and if you’re

While I often try to write these posts up ahead of time, there are some mornings I wake up and think, "what am I going to post today?" despi...

I've noted previously that I have a lot of music, perhaps too much, and that yeah, sometimes when I think I have discovered a band, oops, I ...

What is Bandcamp Friday, you may ask? All you need to know is right  here . It's always good to support independent artists and independent ...

A relaxed Friday, time with friends on Saturday, and running around on Sunday before finishing a movie we started last weekend. Friday: Friday

Lionel Messi has announced his retirement from international soccer after two decades representing Argentina.

This is a recent discovery, but it fits with my unintended theme this week of synth-based music (other than, you know, the celebrities we lo...

The move comes as Trump and Canada have become embroiled in a trade war.

Ratko Mladic was one of the most notorious figures of a war that killed over 100,000 people in the 1990s. He commanded his troops to "scorch the brains" of the Bosnian Muslims and boasted of being a "...