“The Wire” for life. Read more
You can actually hear their style progress (the early songs were self-recorded on a Panasonic RX-FT500) and most of the early songs are about his multiple crippling drug addictions, his abusive asshole step-father, and the time he spent as a psychiatric nurse on a lockdown ward. The more recent albums are more concept… Read more
Or start with any of these. https://jalopnik.com/we-listened-to-every-song-by-the-mountain-goats-heres-1845476773 Read more
This is so pure. Read more
The Ford Motor Company’s “The Huddle” email in full: Read more
More fingers=faster blogs. I should as for a raise... Read more
I’ll have you know I swim in the Detroit river every summer and it’s left me with a healthy green glow. Read more
These guys often spend a couple hundred on many pieces of crap, so a few thousand on one piece of crap is honesty more efficient. Read more
Which place? Read more
My Irish cousins sent me their pre-tubthumping albums when I was in middle school and it made me pretty radical--both in terms of coolness and in terms of politics. Read more
Love Heilung. Read more
I didn’t know this band! They are very my jam. Thanks! Read more
My father continues to play lead guitar in a prog rock cover band to this day, haha. He’s also the one who also got me into cars. Read more
Fuck. I missed that when it got changed it up. Thanks man. Read more
We Detroiters loved his column. I regularly rant on Detroit themes, but I don’t hold a candle to Foley. No one does. Read more
I’m from, and still live in, Detroit. Folks can still call me a lefty commie all they want, I just come with a rust belt legitimacy that makes me hard to argue with. Read more
In the words of deputy Clementine Johnson: I’m not meant to be a cop. I am not meant to be a magician’s assistant. I was not meant to go to college. I was not meant to donate blood. I am a Babylon Sister, and I was meant to shake it with Steely Dan, motherfuckers! Whoo! Read more
Shiiiit. This is definitely going to be Thursday’s traffic jam Read more