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Jack Spann is a multitalented singer and songwriter. His first solo release comes out on April 19, 2016. It is about time that the world hears his stuff and perhaps that was the genesis of the CD title: Time, Time, Time, Time, Time. Our friend and Milwaukee music scene pipeline Gary Tanin at Daystorm […]
How Nickelback Prepared The World For Postmodern Jukebox By Scott Bradlee Sometimes, inspiration comes from unlikely sources. This was one thought that ran through my head on Thanksgiving Day in 2011, as I found my name in online news outlets everywhere for the first time. It was the first time a video from what would […]
His real name is Brad. Brad Carlson. His father owned a roofing business in Rockford, Illinois and by all accounts, he probably should have ended up working in the family business. Back in 1927, his grandfather had helped put the roof on the building where Brad would eventually attend Junior High so it was certainly […]
I quit band once. Junior High band. It was a misunderstanding and I really didn’t quit, but for some reason everyone thought I did. Everybody expected our mean old band director to get someone to quit; it was always the director “who made them quit.” No one had quit since early in the school year, […]
More new music news coming your way – Gary Tanin at Daystorm sent us a copy of Jack Spann’s new CD Time Time Time Time Time – and we can’t wait to share it with you. Gary’s good friend Tony Visconti (David Bowie) recommended he work with Spann and the results are impressive. Visconti and […]
There are eternal questions that beg for answers. Why is the sky blue? Why does gravity always pull down? What is a record producer? Okay, in my line of work, I can answer the first two but it has taken years of listening to records and making acquaintances to get a handle on the […]
It started as a simple link sent from our old roving NASA educator buddy Ralph Winrich. It was just a clip he had seen on the internet and thought we might be interested. I can’t say that I am captivated by too many viral videos that pop up here and there. It seems that there […]
Our friend Matt Glendinning from the Moses Brown School in Providence, RI sent along their newest ‘School is Closed’ video. I wondered how they could possibly create something to rival last year’s Frozen parody and perhaps they can’t . . . so they took it in a different direction this year. Instead of the joyful ‘School […]
Brianna Lane made a rare second day performance on the Singing Hills stage. While it is not unusual for an artist to appear on both stages over the PMMF weekend, Lane was the first artist I can remember playing the Singing Hills Stage twice. In the top half of the inning (Friday) at the […]
Our two Australian keyboard playing buddies have been putting out some fine music. If you take a little time to check out both Clayton and Lachey’s YouTube entries, you will find some great festival performances. Clayton’s BB King tribute at the Broadbeach Festival features a full band. The top piece video shown here is the […]