Tankboy

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Tankboy (@jkopeny) I hadn't even realized that Instagram had turned of...

I think there is grave danger in living a frictionless life. Had the internet existed when I was a kid, and I my druthers, I would have abso...

I’m coming off a week staycation that was lovely, even if I didn’t feel the creative juices start to flow more freely until…sometime last Su...

I hit a milestone last week I thought was worth celebrating: I hit a 5-year step streak!   I’ve always walked a lot, but over the pandemic w...

Behold this ancient photo of the band! I really need to stop “holding off” writing about things that are constantly present in my life; 19 y...

Working in a book store in the late ‘80s, and being a general weirdo, it will not surprise anyone to know I was really into Anne Rice's ...

Over the last week I've been treating myself to a sort of "summer break" wherein I listen to older music on my phone instead o...

I saw Backrooms over the weekend and enjoyed it. I do love that an incredibly young creator is being given the opportunity to make the jump...

Less than 24 hours after his Late Nigh t sign off, Stephen Colbert popped back up on Michigan public access television to guest host Only In...

Stephen Colbert has left the late night landscape, and it is a huge loss for all of us. If you didn't watch his full, uncut "Worst ...

When we were recently in New York, one of the more delightful surprises was stumbling across the Escanaba Marching Band (from the UP! * ) pl...

Photo by Whitney Pelfrey While it’s true I did clear The Note of the more adult contemporary funk and jazz groups that played there prior to...

Photo by me. I’ve seen Bob Mould dozens of times (and we were once blogroll buddies waaaay back in the early aughts) and I love all his sol...

  I had planned on doing a Quick Spins today over at Third Coast Review, but since next Friday is Bandcamp Friday I decided to hold off unti...

Every once in a while I feel like I should be more in it, y’know. For decades my life was pretty non-stop, keeping me kinda in the “center”...

I was cleaning some things up on ye olde site, testing the links in the left nav (if you're on desktop) and clicked through to the music...

Every couple of months another news outlet or two discovers the growing archive of online concert recordings made in Chicago by longtime tap...

A scene from today's lunchtime excursion. The latest episode of Invincible has a song that straddles the line between darkly driving an...

We saw Hundreds Of Beavers —a movie I have already gushed over in this space —on the big screen last night for the first time! The Davis The...

Artemis II crew photo by NASA/Josh Valcarcel Sure, the news has picked up on it today, but NASA launching a rocket to orbit the moon for th...