Muskblog: Homesteading the Internet since 1995

That was the title of one of the many mix CDs/tapes I’ve made over the years. I made this one for my former co-worker Pierre Carrette who liked a lot of those 80′s hair metal shred maestros. That’s not really my musical genre of choice, but you’ll never hear me say they can’t play. I [...]

Kirk was the guitarist for Split Lip Rayfield. He’d been battling cancer for many months. When given less than six months to live, he went out on tour. He wanted to go out playing music. I first learned of his death through his record lable, Bloodshot. But after finding mention of his death elsewhere in [...]

Maybe this is a little harsh but it gets the point across. Especially when you write a song and produce a YouTube video. I’ve always been more of a computer and stand up video gamer, but if I were to buy a latest generation console I’d be tempted to get a Wii. How much horse [...]

While checking out some blogs I don’t subscribe to, I ran across a post where Budwiser may have stolen an idea for one of their Superbowl ads from a sketch comedy troupe. I never saw the ad during the game, as in Canada we get lamer ads. But I watched the actual skit and it [...]

Jon Langford was a Welsh punk rocker who somehow ended up in Chicago fronting an alt-country side project. A funny thing happened on the way to irrelevance though, some really great song lyrics were written. People bought into the fact that the attitude and politics of punk wasn’t always missing from country music, that there [...]