The Dial

Unfortunately, I’ve been down with the flu and my year-end wrap-up is gonna be less word-y than I’d hoped and planned. What you’re missing: the same hyperbolic fawning you could find on my 2010, or 2009, or 2008, etc list, [...]

N.B. For me, numbers ten through six can change hourly, daily, moving as far up as spot five or four. Also, I try to limit this list to one album per artist. Blood on the Tracks was actually Time out [...]

December 15th always makes me think of Winterland. Back in 92/93, after I saw Bruce Springsteen live at Market Square in Indy, I became obsessed with not just owning all of his albums, but also collecting the hard-to-find bootleg recordings [...]

Earlier this afternoon at the Auer Center for Arts & Culture at OLG’s annual fall retreat (OLG Never Retreats!), we had an icebreaker exercise where the team revealed what they would name their autobiography, if it had to be named [...]

Rock & Roll, Heart & Arrow Music and design go together, with London’s Danny George Wilson and One Lucky Guitar. In our early days, we tried just about anything to get the word out and create awareness amongst musicians and [...]

The awesome crew over at music/film zine Ze Catalist asked if I’d contribute something to their ‘Wilco Week’ series, celebrating the release of the rock band’s new album, The Whole Love. I was thrilled to jump in and get all [...]

Last night, there was Fortissimo: A Symphonic Collission of the Precise & The Unbound. In a lot of ways, Fortissimo was OLG doing everything it knows how to do, all at once. Nate and I were over-the-moon in the weeks and [...]

Marah The Brass Rail June 7, 2011

In late 2009, I was asked to serve on an audience development committee for The Phil. It was a great group, and resulted in an really successful program—Phil U. Also, though, at that first meeting—December 3, 2009 at the Dash-In, [...]

Holler and the Moan A Film by Greg Locke Cinema Center February 25, 2011