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There is a line in the song Stay Positive by the Hold Steady that goes “There’s gonna come a time when the true scene leaders forget where they differ and get big picture ‘cause the kids at the shows, they’ll have kids of their own and the sing-along songs will be our scriptures.”

I’m old enough that this is happening now.

In light of that, I’m going to spend the rest of the year highlighting our scriptures.

There are about 5 Andrew Jackson songs that should be on this list, and there might be by the end of it, but we’re starting here.

Yelling the opening line of this song feels so very good. Doing it with a room full of people feels even better.

It probably says a lot about me how often the chorus of this song enters my head and how often it gets played in the car while driving home from work..

Originally by Ghost Mice

All posts in the month of August will be covers.

The AJJ/Ghost Mice split was my introduction to this band, and I didn't realize for the longest time that this song was a cover. Even after I got pretty deep into the band, I still thought this was their song and not a Ghost Mice cover. Which is pretty stupid considering I also thought the split featured several covers of each band’s songs. This is also dumb, because each band covers only one of the other band’s songs.

I’m an idiot, but this is still a great cover.

God, I need to see this band

I made this. 

Every few months/years, I dig it back out. I’m still pretty happy with the noise I’ve made.

Download three Terra Billa Ta releases at my Bandcamp page, or the extended version of the album that this song is on here. 

Damn, I love this song.

The 1 time I got to see them live, only Chris showed up. Bummer.

All posts in October will be from bands playing Fest 10 in Gainesville, Florida. Everything will be posted in the order that they are playing. 

Saturday, 12:30 am at the Florida Theater of Gainesville

I got into Against Me! late in the game, sometime post “Searching…” but pre “New Wave.” And because of this, I’ve never actually seen the band live. Fest seems like my best opportunity to maybe hear some of the songs I actually like. 

Just like Friday, unless you’re cooler than me and know about some secret warehouse, hotel set, or house party show by some band, this is probably the musical end of your night. Gather your friends and go eat some Five-Star.

The crowd when I saw these dudes was AMAZING.

Muscle dude in his underwear that will choke you out. Good times.