Articles
House of Bread / Superhuman Tomb
It sounds like guitarists Omar Afzaal and Bob Haddad, known mostly for their work in All Nite Skate and Castles, are having more fun together – and working harder – […]
Yeasayer / Odd Blood
Do I hate this record? Would I play it with windows down and “normal” people within earshot? Is this just the latest in a long line of post-Pitchfork flavor-of-the-month bands? […]
The Dead Records
Pronouncements of the death of the record industry have been de rigueur since the birth of MP3s and Napster-style filesharing towards the end of the last century, and the name […]
Jon Keller
I’m downstairs at Hyde Brothers Booksellers, lost in the endless aisles, on the hunt for a used copy of Francois Truffaut’s Hitchcock book. With me is singer-songwriter Jon Keller, who […]
Lance Hoeppner / Well Into The Night
Lance Hoeppner is a busy man. Co-founder of the Fort Wayne favorite experimental rock trio-turned-duo Moser Woods, Hoeppner also performs in the Marnée Project. So why would he choose to […]
Heartbeat City
The heart of rock n’ roll, as Huey Lewis once so sagely put it, is still beating, and we can thank bands like the newly minted Heartbeat City for that […]
Castles
Guitarist Omar Afzaal is in two (or is it three?) bands, works and goes to school. Bassist Ty Brinneman is a founding member of the Soma art collective and is […]
The AntiVillains / So Much for Romance
If Toledo, Ohio makes you think of Spain, Jamie Farr and/or That Place South of Ann Arbor, then you need to add another thought to your list: Cool Music Town. […]
Yellow Dead Bettys / B.P.M.
What do I know about the Yellow Dead Bettys? I know they’re a Fort Wayne band. I know they once got shut down at a certain local bar (to be […]
Darkroom
In this era of digital photography it’s very likely that many of the young fans who follow local foursome Darkroom aren’t terribly familiar with things like fixing baths and enlargers. […]