Wicked Guilty Pleasures

The music gods smiled on us when we set the order for this list, which seems arbitrary but is not. Today, they gave us Indiana, and of cours...

Elizabeth Clark Phair was active on the cross country team and in student government at New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois.  Yep. N...

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Conway Twitty.   That was his original 1958 recording, which would reach #1 on the US Country AND Pop Charts.  He ...

I do love the irony of bands being named after places they are not from. That, however, is not the case today.  Alabama Shakes are, indeed, ...

Do you remember where you were when you first saw this video? Well, this song, the best known one by Akron, Ohio-founded band Devo, is just ...

Look, if you read Totally Covered, you're going to recognize most of this post. I originally wrote this in 2012.   The fact is, the most...

Robert Pollard, of Dayton, Ohio, was destined to be a rock star of Grace Potter dimensions.  (Told ya) This was the big first single off the...