I’ve been watching a lot of Olympic curling.  A lot.  I’m sending text messages about the uniform choices of Canadian women’s skip Cheryl Bernard.  I’m peppering my daily speech with curling terms (as in: referring to the last cup of coffee in the pot as “the hammer”).  I’m seriously considering joining a league and making [...]

(Editor’s note: I’m feeling strangely nostalgic this Lazy Saturday, more prone to looking back than forward.  We’ve been hitting you with bands that you ought to pay attention to over the last few weeks in this forum (Young Buffalo, Heliotropes, AIDS Wolf and so on), but this week I just want to revel in the [...]

One of the great things we learned quickly about the Pitchfork festival is that the bands do, indeed, enjoy performing music.  I grow tired of bands that whip through a quick set and hit the road as quickly as they entered, all with a lackluster attitude and nonchalance that borders on confrontational.  It’s an all-round [...]

Frightened Rabbit kicked off our day today, but Blitzen Trapper was the early set that we had circled on our calendar for the last month.  After opening with Wild Mountain Nation, which was a surprising yet effective choice, the Portland boys laid down a Furr-heavy set that had the masses who had been camping out [...]

Brian was a bit salty yesterday regarding the blogosphere.  I gave him a ring after the diatribe and tried to let him know everythin’ was going to work out okay.  I’m in complete agreement with him regarding the blatant disregard some folks have with the music that gets leaked to them, but I’ve always thought [...]

The world conspired against me on Record Store Day, 2009.  My dog came down with a wicked case of Bordetella and was hacking up masses of sputum all over the house, immediately before I was slated to pile into the Dickmobile and head to Music Saves to celebrate all that is wonderful about independent music.  [...]

We know you’ve been on the edge of your seat, waiting expectantly for Citizen Dick’s first road show, covering Blitzen Trapper from Chicago to Detroit.  We pulled out all the stops on this one, with pictures, commentary, set lists, and even a few words from the Trappers themselves to share with you today.  So sit [...]

Happy Friday, kids!  We have a bit of a hodge-podge for you today, so bear with me if you can.  First of all, I would like to share a bit of bad news with you from Citizendick’s western campus.  As of last Friday, yours truly Diamond Jim has joined the ranks of the unemployed.  That’s [...]

We’re switching it up a bit on you for the next five tracks we loved from 2008.  The first five all came from albums we did not hit in our notable 2008 records list.  Today, we present our favorite tracks from some of those notable records.  There were some disagreements in the citizendick offices on [...]