A few weeks ago, Chuck Klosterman wrote a piece entitled “Rock VORP” for the new sports/pop culture website Grantland. Being a massive Klosterman and Grantland fan, I was excited by the prospect of Klosterman attempting to turn rock music into a measurable baseball-esque sabermetric statistic. Rather than try to explain his process in a convoluted [...]
Syracuse Game Day Music Piece from The Syracuse Post-Standard
Meet Roger Springfield: the man behind the music at Carrier Dome Another season of music has begun for one of Syracuse’s mainstays. But the sounds aren’t emanating from a concert hall — they’re echoing off the walls of the Carrier Dome. While music isn’t the reason that fans pour into the Carrier Dome to watch [...]
Syracuse CRT Feature From The New Times
A Matter of Trust New and underutilized, the Cultural Resources Trust has money for arts organizations to share; the trick is to get to it. During the current Great Recession, financial support for the arts is drying up like the Sahara Desert. In this fiscally arid climate, the arrival of a new funding source would [...]
Pill Wonder Feature From The Inlander
Double Life Seattle’s Pill Wonder is making a splash in the industry — but they still have bills to pay Dana Jewell has to call me back. His band Pill Wonder is generating some serious noise. The band and their cluttered lo-fi pop sound are riding a wave of good publicity thanks to a handful [...]
All Time Low Feature for The Inlander
Band For Sale All Time Low plans to be the next big thing. No matter what you say By most standards, All Time Low is doing wonderfully. The band’s latest studio effort, Nothing Personal, debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard charts (No. 1 among alternative, rock and independent releases) in July. For years, they’ve [...]
