Basslines and Protest Signs is Brett Callwood’s column looking at the intersection of music and politics. This week talks about the response to the Biden/Harris win.
Basslines and Protest Signs is Brett Callwood’s column looking at the intersection of music and politics. This week celebrates Kamala Harris.
Basslines and Protest Signs is Brett Callwood’s column looking at the intersection of music and politics. This week talks about the use of music without permission at political campaign rallies.
Basslines and Protest Signs is Brett Callwood’s column looking at the intersection of music and politics. This week talks about Morrissey.
Basslines and Protest Signs is Brett Callwood’s column looking at the intersection of music and politics. This week talks about conservative musicians.
In light of rumors that Kid Rock is considering running for US Senate, Brett discusses which music makers would get his vote in a Presidential election.
“Callwood at the Cooler” sees Brett Callwood waxing lyrical about events in the news, pop culture and the etc. This week’s topics include: Mariah Carey, Trump’s inauguration party, Coachella, and more.
It’s a struggle most of us have experienced with our families, at least to some degree — the parents think the kids’ music is unlistenable garbage, and the kids think their parents’ music was recorded by the first dinosaurs to ever hold guitars. But when you find those rare few bands that occupy the middle ground between everyone’s tastes, it’s a special moment that brings the family together way better than getting a pet fish ever could.
One night in the late 1990s, Conan O’Brien was hanging out in a Detroit bowling alley after shooting a remote segment with Ted Nugent (”I rode around in the woods with him, we had a guitar duel and then fired guns,” he recalls). “I have this vague memory of these really cool kids coming over and hanging out with us,” he says. “I knew nothing about them or what they did.” A few years later, O’Brien learned he had met Jack and Meg White that day when he popped into a Saturday Night Live rehearsal to check out the White… Read more »
The largest North American power blackout in history plunged more than 50 million people into darkness in a 9,600-square-mile swath from the East Coast to the Midwest and Southern Canada on Thursday, affecting everything from subways in New York to the water supply in Cleveland. The outage also cut the power to a number of summer tours, knocking Bob Dylan and Tori Amos offline and sending many other bands scurrying for backup plans and places to crash for the night. An eagerly awaited hometown reunion of punk pioneers the Stooges, scheduled to play their first Detroit show in more than… Read more »
