Entertainment, Information & a General Sense of Well Being
A radio personality in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, Alex has a rich family legacy in media. Music, movies, and politics are all on this guy’s radar. He appears on the TWG podcast in the “Heartbeat of the 20-Something” segment. He also blogs with zest on cultural topics – with an emphasis on reviewing the newest movies and music.
GooseRadio Reviews 2010 — Relive the year in Kanye’s Tweets here>> Because Twitter has tainted the way we write, we’re trying something new this year, reviews for our top 10 albums in 140 characters or less. Why? Because we’re hip and modern (and because Alex can’t come up with anything clever to write). Enjoy! *Album [...]
If you’ve ever felt like you’re the only one who romanticizes, not the elusive “one” (which doesn’t actually exist, but that’s another topic for another place), but rather your favorite album and band, meet Craig Finn, the everyman who fronts The Hold Steady. He knows exactly what you’re talking about. Heaven Is Whenever is an [...]
Alkaline Trio – This Addiction On this “back-to-basics” release, the Chicago punks continue to plumb the depths of unhealthy relationships, fully relying on the drug addiction metaphor the title implies. An ominous atmosphere surrounds This Addiction and is most fully felt on the stellar “Fine” where the analogy of raining for days makes it’s second [...]
A few artists and albums that are getting us through the winter doldrums, enjoy! Vampire Weekend – Contra Terms like “afro-pop” follow this band around and, admittedly, I have no idea what that means, but I do understand the preppy, collegiate label they’ve received as Contra sounds like the soundtrack to all those daydreams of [...]
Better late than never…our friend Nicorelli from 99.7 KISS FM in Springfield, Illinois (yes, the birthplace of Barack H. Obama) shares his top 10 albums of 2009. Go figure, he and Alex have the same taste in music, but he brings an Illinois-y perspective to last year’s best, enjoy! P.S. You can listen to Nicorelli [...]
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