It’s rare I miss the opening bands when I get tickets to any show. I really enjoy listening and discovering bands I might not of...

When you live in Des Moines, Iowa, a small city right on I-80 within 4 hours from 3 bigger cities, and only 5 from Chicago, it’s...

A couple of decades into their careers, some of the best punk rock artists seem to find that punk rock alone is not enough anymore. Mike...

“When you’re here, you’re family. Just like the Olive Garden. We’ll be selling breadsticks at our merch table.” This was just an example...

KANAN’S TOP 5 BAND TEES OF 2018 5. THE BOMBPOPS – “Dear Beer” tee I love my Bombpops “Dear Beer” tee. I have a slight feeling that it was...

5. Face to Face, Less Than Jake, Direct Hit, at Gas Monkey, Dallas, TX, April 21 This was one worth travelling for. I am lucky that my...

So as everyone knows, 2018 was a tough year for me personally. I have made it very well known that music was absent from my life and live...

Normally, I would follow each listed album with paragraph after paragraph of why I loved each and every one of them. I would describe the...

Punk rock was all but dead in 1989 and I missed it. I’m old enough to have seen The Clash and some other punk bands of the early 1980s in...

Night One: As the Eternal Cowboy As soon I heard that Against Me! would be playing a two-night show in Denver, CO, I knew that I had to...