White Crosses is very clean sounding but goddamn if I don't love it.  New Wave didn't strike me aside from "Thrash Unreal" and "The Ocean" but the only song I don't really get into on WC is "Ache With Me."  I'm definitely excited for the new album.

Embarrassing Story:
During the summer prior to my freshman year in high school the girl I had been crushing on stopped by my house while I was mowing the front lawn.  I lived three miles outside of a small WI village so it was rare to have other kids from school stop by, but she was visiting her friend who lived a…

That movie was so strange.  Burt Reynolds has a super creepy thing going on with his buddy's underage daughter. 

I'm 32 and I still like Social Distortion, though I wasn't a huge fan of their latest album - I hate that shitty female backing vocal sound.  However I didn't get into them until I was 16 with White Light White Heat and didn't go back to the earlier records until later.

I too look forward to reminiscing on all my favorite ska-punks bands.

Absolutely.  That's one of my favorites songs on a very strong album.

Oh yes, that's a good pick. 

The Real McKenzies do Barrett's Privateers on their latest record.  The addition of Gaelic drums is pretty fucking excellent.

The first post-rock band that piqued my interest was Cougar, a Madison-based band that released two albums in 2007 and 2009.  I saw a show of theirs in '07 without hearing anything beforehand.  At first I was nonplussed, as if I didn't know what to think about rock music without lyrics.  About five songs in I was…

I also saw him on tour with Snider.  It was a somewhat big venue for a solo act but he completely held the room.  When he came out later to play with Snider it really made the night for me. 

The Red Scare tour is also with Masked Intruder and Sam Russo.  I'm hoping to make the 7/12 show at the Frequency, but like all true punks I've got a work golf outing that afternoon that might wear me out.

Yeah, Zucker really did a nice job that year.  I graduated the following year and got Shirley Abrahamson.  Apparently being the Chief Justice of the WI Supreme Court doesn't require giving memorable speeches because I cannot remember anything about it aside from general boredom.

No.  We are in fact all incredible assholes.

I'm looking forward to seeing this as I absolutely loved Take Shelter.  And as an added bonus I saw Lucero last night and Ben Nichols played "Shelter" followed by "Last Pale Light in the West" which really kind of put me in a slightly creepy, slightly paranoid mood.  

@avclub-bca3531762af8a993c4f60c48fd5e33b:disqus While the jibarito at Borinquen is indeed delicious the amount of grease from the plantains and the mayonnaise might push the needle toward unhealthy.  They are goddamn delicious though.

I love the whispered lines in The Lawrence Arms' "The March Of The Elephants" from The Greatest Story Ever Told.

I kept bringing it up to my buddy - he claimed he could hear no difference but it was really bugging me. 

Chupacabra Terror was on SyFy Saturday night and I watched it after the seeing the Badgers win the Broadmoor Trophy.   Maybe it was the residual positive vibes from the hockey game or maybe it had something to do with the two double IPAs I had earlier but I laughed my ass off at that movie.  I have to say as a…

If liking hockey and ska bands makes me a hipster so be it.  PICK IT UP PICK IT UP DROP THE PUCK!

I saw Ted Leo & the Pharmacists a couple years back and they did a wonderful cover of "Fisherman's Blues" by the Waterboys.  That song has been a favorite of mine for years and it was such an awesome surprise to hear it played live.