Tuff Tamale's "proper" debut is almost here!

It's not that Kip and I haven't released versions of our music over the last couple years, but the upcoming Tuff Tamale release has me stoked since it finally feels like the right collection of tunes to issue as a "debut."

(Though, yes, Kitten Trapper Keeper is out there, but think of that as the mixtape and this new release as the album.)

And just in time for Riot Fest, it will feature a new mix of "We Hate Everything," since I think it's OK at this point in time to publicly reveal that we were also the duo behind Ur Lineup Sux, Bro.

We're hoping to have it on both Bandcamp and Spotify at then same time.

A new EP from Woolworthy with both the brand spankin' new and a few old faves.

On their latest EP—Fall With You, out now—Woolworthy continues to make a strong case for their continued reunion.* It's got 2 new numbers, and 2 songs familiar to anyone who's caught the band live in, oh, the last 20 years or so. While many are excited the band finally re-recorded "Moped Song" off an early release that has always seemed to be a fan favorite. But for me, hearing them finally lay down their version of Cheap Trick's "He's A Whore" is the song I'm most excited to finally have a non-live copy of.

If you're in Chicago, the band is playing an EP release show at Livewire Lounge on June 20. 

*Not that any case needed to be made, mind you.

'Pavements' gave me a chance to play a little bit.

I hiked out to the far 'burbs to catch Pavements a few weeks ago before it opened in Chicago, and put together this review of the film for Third Coast Review. 

Inspired by the movie, I took the opportunity to do something a little different with this review. Hope you dig it!

The Pavement video I never saw before yesterday.

I am once of those lucky folks who got in on Pavement close to the ground floor (due to a girlfriend at the time with better musical taste than me) seeing many live shows from the band during their initial run, and the recent spate of activity spurred by Alex Ross Perry's Pavements movie (which I saw last weekend and will review this week) has resurfaced material in my feeds I had somehow missed before! 

So, please enjoy this trip down memory (shady?) lane with me.