May 21, 2016
Faygo, Vernors and the ‘Nuge’: 5 Michigan-themed cocktails for summertime
Recently I was at a backyard garden party, the first of the year, with some colleagues from Daily Detroit, when...
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April 28, 2016
Pardon the dust while 8-Wood remodels
The last straw was when a friend who was visiting recently from New York City asked me about my blog and...
April 16, 2016
These are my jams: 4 new releases in 2016
It’s been a while since I wrote anything about music that didn’t involve dead musicians, so I thought I’d highlight...
March 23, 2016
My music icons keep falling: A tribute to Phife Dawg of A Tribe Called Quest
I need to say a few words about the fallen music icon du jour, Phife Dawg from A Tribe Called...
January 30, 2016
Paul Kantner was a founding member of Jefferson Airplane — and an unrepentant freak
It’s strange to keep writing tribute posts to my favorite fallen rock legends, but here we are: The old guard...
January 11, 2016
A tribute to the brilliant sound and vision of David Bowie
David Bowie spent the past year or so working on his 25th album, Blackstar, which he released Friday, the day...
December 30, 2015
5 songs that aren’t ‘Ace of Spades’ to play loud to honor Lemmy
Nearly five years ago, my very pregnant wife and I went to a midweek brew-and-view screening of Lemmy, the documentary...
December 15, 2015
8-Wood’s favorite albums of 2015
Full disclosure: I am not a formal rock critic (i.e. no one sends me free CDs to review). But I...
November 12, 2015
Happy 70th birthday to Neil Young, a true Canadian original and rock-n-roll god
Way back in college, when I first discovered his catalog in earnest, a musician friend remarked to me that “Neil...
October 30, 2015
8-Wood’s 8 scary Halloween songs to put you in the mood
No matter how old I get, I never outgrow Halloween. I retain a childlike fascination with the macabre, with horror and...
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