From the Outside: No New York

The year was 1978. Brian Eno, famed English musician/producer, was in New York assisting The Talking Heads produce and master their sophomore effort, More Songs About Buildings and Food. While there, Eno attended a four day long underground rock festival held at...

A Young Gypsy: Janis Joplin and Bobby McGee

This could be the hysteria of post-midterms, a 40% on a psychology exam and a C on a paper speaking, but sometimes I feel like I‰’m not supposed to be in college. More times than not, I am plagued with some sort of crisis where the only obvious answer to cure it...

Midwest Musings: Other Lives

When you think Oklahoma, you think Pistol Pete, bombings, tumbleweeds and maybe even Hanson. You don‰’t think of rich, moody, harmonic folk pop, but that is exactly what Other Lives is. From Stillwater, Oklahoma, this five person group has everything you want in...

Label Fables: Fat Possum

A “fat possum” calls to mind an image of a rural southern town. It instills thoughts of 1960s jazz coffee houses, back porches, smoky bars, etc. The record corporation known as Fat Possum used to stand for these Mississippi attributes – until the...