I can’t remember how I first heard about Say Hi to Your Mom. It was probably in the early 2000s when I was downloading songs from Stereogum and Music For Robots on my work computer in the dark basement of Salt Lake Community College. I immediately fell in love with...
A quick work trip to Seattle. The original idea was to take Traci with me and turn it into a little vacation, but the universe had other plans. So it turned into a few hours of me time.For a guy who was raised on grunge music, Seattle is pretty much the best place in...
Rodeo (King and) Queen City folk? Not us. Like good pioneers, we celebrated the 24th of July at the Days of ’47 Rodeo. Every year, I tell myself I’m going to buy a cowboy hat — just for occasions like this. But I never seem to pull the trigger. Maybe next...
It started with Curtis. He told me he wanted to wear an undershirt to church because he had a weird button that would open and show off his tummy. Such a modest fella. So then, of course, Tate started wearing an undershirt as well. But he had different motivations....
After 20 Years, Traci Bids the Library Farewell Copy Twenty-two years since I last saw @smashingpumpkins. The three-hour set was probably an hour longer than I needed, but if that’s how you get Drown, Mayonaise, and Thirty Three, I won’t complain. And The visuals were...
