We have been trying to maintain two blog sites for awhile and decided to just focus on one site examining all things music. You can find us here. 

Rock on!

Mark and Michelle

There is reasonable concern right now about the future of live music and related industries. Clubs and other venues are closing, many people have been laid off, support businesses are shuttering and many musicians and other artists are struggling. More…

Recently we had the opportunity be a festival opening act on a bill that included a band I have been following for probably 30 years. Los Lobos remains one of the great musical treasures of our time with a career…

Full disclosure, I am old enough to remember when the stuff played on “classic rock stations,” was edgie, non-mainstream, alternative rock. “What is that noise?” was a common response and reaction from the parental generation of the time. It was…

For those of you who live in northern Wisconsin, you understand that Spring is a relative term. I grew up in Chicago. Spring there involved the snow disappearing, with maybe an occasional sprinkle in early March. 

Here we still have…