Kentucky didn't ratify the 13th Amendment until 1976. That's a long holdout. Because it never seceded, Kentucky was never "redeemed" during Reconstruction and has a particularly nasty post-war history. Kentucky was also the birthplace of Jefferson Davis. Most Confederate monuments are really about Reconstruction (or…

William Sherman was the first president at LSU. There isn't even a painting of him on campus, yet there is a dorm named after Kirby-Smith. Apparently, they have enough of his old personal effects to make a replica office, yet lack the stones to do so.

My name's Mike D and I get respect, a delightful wine pairing is what I expect

Juggalos… saviors of the Republic. 2017 is weird, man.

What a crazy fluke, we're gonna get nuked… on this jolly holiday

This is a stunt candidacy that is only going to pull away votes from Kinky Friedman.

The lack of Taste of Cherry is a huge oversight. You could just put it in the #2 slot there. Maybe slide LA Confidential while we're at it. Other than that, this is pretty solid list.

There will always be singer/songwriters. So it's a constantly renewing resource for organizers. And I fail to see what's so awful about a coffeehouse singer/songwriter festival if we have festivals for literally every other genre of music. And heck, you only have to slightly push the envelope to get a lineup of, say,…

This article was similar to yesterday's snide dismissal of pop-punk compilations. How dare Lilith Fair see an underserved market and then create a thematically consistent lineup in order to cater to that market? And they added punk and hip hop artists in Year Two but the "damage had already been done." Man, seems like…

Awesome. I'll have to check them out again. I haven't seen them in perhaps 10 years, but I loved how they opened up a set in DC with "East Coast… Fuck You!" It was more of a goofy jibe than an actual attack, and it set the tone for the evening. They were a blast.

What made the late 90s so depressing was that it felt like the freaks won in the early 90s. All of a sudden, everyone seemed to be listening to bands that wouldn't have gotten within a mile of the "cool kids" just a few years earlier. The cultural gatekeepers sort of broke down and all sorts of bizarre wonderful…

I still love Turn the Radio Off as an enjoyable just plain fun record, but yeah… I think my defense of RBF stops short of some inessential EP that only their diehard fans bought.

Bouncing Souls were one of the best live bands I've ever seen. I wonder if they still have their fastball. But they were so much fun back in the day.

I think you nailed it. This is the younger equivalent of pretending you didn't like Duran Duran before you got into punk. Who cares what your gateway was?

Mailorder is Fun was such a great comp. Nearly every song is about three minutes of fun. Yes, most of the bands became nothing… that's sort of the way it goes. Not everyone gets to be NOFX.

I loved Soule's She Hulk run.

I don't think that's tin foil territory, but I prefer to look at it more positively: the less your corporate masters care what you do, the more freedom artists and writers have to do interesting things or even risk failure.

PIVOT!

The Inhumans served just two purposes: ONE, to give Marvel an alternative to the X-Men since they do not hold the rights and TWO, to introduce Ms. Marvel. It sort of sucks at Purpose #1 (it just makes us wish Marvel had the X-Men) and has utterly failed at Purpose #2.

13 Songs
The Argument
Red Medicine
In on the Kill Taker
Repeater
Steady Diet of Nothing
End Hits
Instrument