Uneasy Rhetoric

I heard the band Hanggai on National Public Radio this morning and the little snippets were enough to pique my interest.  I just bought the album and I’m completely blown away.
There’s something vaguely fanboy about buying new music because I heard it on NPR. In part, this is because I know too many people who [...]

One of the best U2-style Irish bands from the 80s you’ve never heard is now available on iTunes. Believe me, Cactus World News is worth a listen.

This has nothing to do with Sacramento, but seeing as I blew my teenager allowance at The Beat (when it was on H Street) on many vinyl disks, including a copy of Scottish punk band the Skids’ “Scared to Dance,” I thought I’d bring this up.
It appears chart-punkers Green Day and chart-geezers U2 are getting [...]