by Charles Norman | Jul 1, 2014 | Features
My dad rose from the couch and stomped across the room to the television. Ignoring the announcer’s exhortation – “Don’t touch that dial!” – he dialed through the three channels that beamed out from Nashville to our home in the hills of the Upper Cumberland. Channel 4,...
by Milkshake | Jun 15, 2014 | Features, Guest Posts
I first heard of Brian Harding in late 2009. The Food Guy went to the Austin City Limits Festival and came back talking about this band called Hymns that had backed Daniel Johnston. The Food Guy said Daniel Johnston is a good songwriter but that his live performance...
by Charles Norman | May 24, 2014 | Features
Hey, cats! What do you want to do tonight? Oh yeah, I know what you want to do. You want to watch the chipmunks on the front porch. In an act that made me question my professionally-questioned sanity, I spread some corn and sunflower seeds outside my porch window. Not...
by Charles Norman | May 3, 2014 | Features
I am told that the globe is warming. I am told that, by driving my car down to the Shell station to pick up a bag of beef jerky and a six-pack of Bud Light, I am sowing the seeds of our planet’s future destruction, an apocalypse to be preceded by the watery...
by Charles Norman | Apr 6, 2014 | Features
Josaleigh Pollett inscribes letters, never written or mailed but spoken aloud in a room without light, staring at an unseen wall, a glass half-empty of bourbon on the side table, messages to the departed, the estranged, the source of her ache. Strangers comprises...
by Charles Norman | Mar 20, 2014 | Features
Full disclosure: The first time I visited Feral Conservatives’ Bandcamp page, and saw that the “band” is a little girl with an electric mandolin and a badass-looking guy on drums, I thought “Oh god this is gonna suck.” I anticipated some sort of lo-fi noise rock that...
