Originally published in Stereo Embers Magazine For some, Portland Oregon is just too weird. Weird houses. Weird lifestyle choices. Weird...

Originally published in Stereo Embers Magazine Gen-X-ers…shit’s getting weird. Suddenly, without warning, milk is good for you again....

Originally published in Stereo Embers Magazine As the great Mudhoney once nobly said, we’re “Flat Out Fucked.” 2021…yeah it’s not been...

Occasionally, when the “Deloreon in my mind” zooms me back to better days, I land somewhere in ’93-’94. There I am in Boise, Idaho. I’m...

Justin Currie from Del Amitri is, and always has been, my guy. It was 1990, Bush Sr. was president, Sam Malone’s hair still seemed real,...

Rise and grind people! We’ve got Evan Dando business at hand. Evan frickin’ Dando. Dando, Dando, Dando. The enigmatic poster boy of Gen-X...

I know what you may be thinking right this very second. Pearl Jam? Freaking Pearl Jam?? Eddie Vedder? Come the fuck on, dude! To which I...

Exploring one’s new neighborhood during a pandemic is tricky business. Thankfully, shit is swiftly reopening in Portland, Oregon. One can...

*as originally published in Stereo Embers Magazine 5/5/21 I’ll level with you. We’re good like that, yeah? I’m tossing myself a softball...

Best of the Rest is back with a spring in our step. It’s FINALLY 2021, the vaccines are on the truck and the adults are back in charge....

Good Lordy, did 2020 just blow or what?! Garbage. Truly awful by any conceivable standard. So terrible in fact, that I gave serious...

Oh, quit it. Just stop. I know you want to throw your Slurpee at your screen right now, but just give it a sec. First off, that Slurpee...

The genesis of this new Best of the Rest column can most definitely be blamed on my stupid bike. Yes, my bike. Undoubtedly the vast...

Look, I’m an album guy. Love them. Love everything about them. The liner notes, the pictures, the credits, the lyric sheets, the...

Sometime ago, in an early COVID era, far, far away, I wrote a feature in this fine magazine called Tough Love: Picking The Best Songs Of...

In honor of fall, the return of NFL football and the myriad of fantasy football leagues that accompany the season, I figured it would be...

Well folks, Rome is literally still burning. So, so much burning. This leaves we few (we happy few) with a choice to make. While at the...

Rock with me, people! I hearby commemorate the grand opening of The Shawn Brown School for Wayward Youth by inviting each and everyone of...

Oh wonder of wonders, Sunday Quarantunes returns yet again, delivering a swift kick to the nads of our collective cool. Ouchy! Is it just...

In the interest of bashing and popping through the faux-coolness wafting off our long suffering record collections, I now offer you this...