The Prodigy--Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned This country has never really been able to fully accept techno music. It's mostly reser...

 Green Day--American Idiot Sometime around 1998 Green Day decided to become adults. Singer Billie Joe Armstrong was now a daddy and went thr...

 Jimmy Eat World--Futures It's been three long years since Jimmy Eat World hit the mainstream crowd with Bleed American. Though Futures ...

 Taking Back Sunday--Where You Want to Be By Tyler McHenry Taking Back Sunday swept the emo world by storm with its debut “Tell All Your Fri...

 Strung Out--Exile in Oblivion First of all, Strung Out is the real deal. With their latest release, Exile in Oblivion, the So Cal veterans ...

Straylight Run Self-titled Emo is all about broken hearts and love gone bad. Apparently in Taking Back Sunday’s case, the love went bad with...

 Eminem Encore March 2006 All of the usual characters are back for Eminem’s latest full-length Encore– Kim, Hailie, Em’s mom Debbie, the dad...

 All in All is All We All Are: Looking Back on Kurt Cobain by Pat Barnum Of all the things that can be said of Kurt Cobain, above all, he ar...

Sutherland Manifesto Hover Low EP The first official review of the new EP. Not very objective since it's by my good friend Pat Barnum, b...

  Iron & Wine Woman King EP Beautiful. Start to finish. This six song EP feels like a full album because every song is so incredibly goo...

  Styrofoam nothing's lost   Apparently  Death Cab for Cutie 's Ben Gibbard can't get enough of working with electronic artists....

  Hot Hot Heat Elevator When I got a hold of  Hot Hot Heat 's  Make Up the Breakdown  in 2002, I absolutely could not get enough. These ...

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Kingwood  Everyone has "their band" - you know, the band you say when someone asks you what kind of music you're i...

Ben Folds
Songs For Silverman "The old bastard left his ties and a suit…Pretty soon you'll be an old bastard too." Well, an al...

  Weezer Make Believe Weezer’s new record: a masterpiece or a piece of crap? The critics are divided! It’s been interesting to read the diff...

  Headphones The Velvet Room June 9 “This is the night where the bar doesn’t make any money,”  Opening act Crystal Skulls welcomed the very ...

Curtis at the plate, loading up for the pitch.

I love when Tate and Juliano huddle up on the mound.

How do you stay warm during a 90-minute torrential downpour? Huddle up in the dugout. #baseballlife

Tate got baptized today. He giggled through the whole thing. 😂

11 years of Curt, Curd, Curb, and Curtis.

My favorite dancing feather duster. Props to Paige for months of hard work and six great nights of Beauty and the Beast at her junior high....

Baseball is back. This year, with Tate on the hill. ⚾️

Winnie the Pooh, Charlie Blackmon, and the Ref.

Too smoky outside for a flag football game, but you can never cancel picture day. 🏈

Twenty-two years since I last saw @smashingpumpkins. The three-hour set was probably an hour longer than I needed, but if that’s how you ...

Gettin’ our rodeo on.🐴

After 20 years, this lady just completed her final shift at the Murray Library. Cheers to a great career!

The Sutherlands' love of baseball is at all-time high (the Sutherland boys at least. Paige and Traci both find baseball excruciatin...

Congrats to our 6th grade graduate! Paige has certainly made the most of her elementary school years. School musicals and plays, debate t...

Big game for Tater. Hit a triple. Stole home a few times. Got a runner out at first. ⚾️ #baseballlife #tatersgonnatate

Today’s the big day, the culmination of a what Curtis has dubbed “A decade of Curd.” Happy 10th to our Green Kangaroo.

No one believed me.  No one. But my confidence could not be shaken.  I told the kids today was the day I would catch a foul ball.  ...

Best thing about going to church? Rockin’ these Tupac socks, complete with tieable bandanas. Thanks to my friend Liz for the fantastic gif...

Our littlest guy isn't so little anymore. Tate just turned the big 0-7. And I don't think he could have had a better day.  ...

Tate. Getting ready for the new season. Let the games begin. ⚾️

The last time we went to Disneyland, I told Traci it would be probably be the last time we went to Disneyland. Not only is it incredibly...