Drive Fast / Heartland Outlaws
Here’s the disadvantage of being a band circa 2007: some say it’s all been done, every landmark movement’s been bled dry.
But turn...
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Carol Lockridge
WhenCarol Lockridge moved to Fort Wayne in 1999 the Summit City became far richer,stealing a great blues vocalist and natural musician away from Detroit,Michigan....
GoodbyeWave / Goodbye, So Long, Farewell, Goodnight
Say you hail from a typical Midwest small town (Warsaw, Indiana, for instance), soak up influences that aren’t necessarily the “norm,” put together...
homeless j / The Squeeze
Homeless J, for better or worse, can probably impart that advice more wisely than just about anybody in the region: stuck on the short end of two promising...
I, Wombat / I, Wombat
Want a break from the avalanche of niche-marketed, multimedia “artists” that seem to have emerged whole cloth from some focus-group factory? Do you...
Lee Miles / 1000 Lions
For every songwriter willing to churn their guitar with some chutzpah there are at least 1,000 others with no idea what it means to have guts. On his...
The Lurking Corpses
While driving to meet the members of The Lurking Corpses for an interview I began to consider asking whatzup for additional compensation. I don’t...
Bryon Thompson / Starting Now
Fans of tasty guitar instrumentals rejoice: Bryon Thompson has released Starting Now, his fourth collection of top-notch pop-rock compositions! Once...
Bob Phillips and Jim Steele / Making Waves
Making Waves: A Demonstration of Kymotropic Inventions sat far too long in my stack of albums to review, mostly because I didn’t know how to tackle...
Coda
Twenty years of history is rare for any rock
band. You see it occasionally among some of the top bands in the world – the
Rolling Stones, Aerosmith,...