Music as Life’s Narrator

What is the soundtrack of your life?
Even for those of us who don’t pay much attention to the hottest bands of the month, music still exists in our peripheries..and in our psychies.
Try this..if you were born in the 50’s or 60’s you probably have a particularly visceral and emotional response to these songs

or 60’s & [...]

Art & Transformation- Ode to Yves Saint Laurent

“I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting .. but whatever it’s worth I did it.”
- Yves Saint Laurent

On the first day of June 2008 Yves Henri Donat Dave Mathieu-Saint-Laurent, better known as the iconic couture fashion designer Yves Saint [...]

Will NOT Comply: Wilco guitarist Nels Cline sticks with non-commercial fare

I’ve been fortunate to be involved with every Wilco show since their first show in Madison at Club de Wash in November 1994. The band had just formed out of the acrimonious split that occurred between Uncle Tupelo frontmen Jeff Tweedy and Jay Farrar. I had a birds-eye view of the last throes [...]

Uninsured musicians in peril — Silos’ member died of treatable illness

Memorial concert to raise money and awareness about important issue.

Drew Glackin, 1963-2008
Drew Glackin was a helluva guy. An amazing musician and a friend to all he met, Drew was a member of alt-country legends The Silos, playing bass and pedal steel. He also recorded or toured with Tandy, Gingersol, Susan Tedeschi, The Hold Steady and [...]