Besides being the Slurpee Capital of the World, Winnipeg, Manitoba isn’t a city that catches the eye of many Americans. Much like many of the Canadians we meet, it’s nice enough but not exactly memorable.
In fact, the only distinct memory I have from my handful of trips to Winnepeg is nearly driving into parked cars […]

Beulah. It’s not just a small town on the North Dakota prairie anymore.
There was once a band called Beulah and almost no one has heard of them and I think that’s just tragic. You have no idea what you missed. Have been missing. Have missed. Whatever.
Without going into a long and exhaustive discussion of the […]

First hitting the music scene in 1996 with their only hit, “Sucked Out,” Superdrag is a band that should have been big, but it just didn’t seem to be in the cards for them. They got caught in the backwash of grunge-lite bands that polluted the airwaves and never really had a chance. With a […]

Because the Sara Bareilles song is on every commercial that I can’t fast forward through, or on every mall speaker system, and because the popularity of the sad-bastard music of the Plain White T’s means I have the whole tune memorized without ever having intentionally listened to Delilah, I made this song. Here’s […]

I know it’s a little late for presents, but what the hell. Since the Sod Nation is 100% dedicated towards all things Radiohead, the least I can do is offer you definitive proof as to why the band owns both you and your family’s sorry asses. So as a favor to me, set aside a […]

The problem with Top Ten lists is that you can’t know for sure how much music the dude (or dudette) offering the list actually listened to for the year. Sometimes this makes no difference. Like when Rolling Stone or Spin writers put together their best-of lists, after having had every CD made sent to them […]

Yup, that’s a rapper…
Okay, I’ve been bad. Not as bad as some people, of course, but I do admit that I’ve erred during the past year, no matter how minor the misstep.
That’s right, I put together a Top Ten list before the end of the actual calendar year and now I’m paying for my indiscretion. […]

Since Chris threw us all a curveball by including his top songs of the year on his Top Album list, I feel obliged to throw together a hastily thought-out list of my own. So, before I have a chance to change my mind on any of these songs I came up with, let’s get […]

Finals are over - and my hand muscles are pissed at me from writing ad naseum about Business Associations - which means that it’s officially time to drop my end of year, best music of 2007 list, which (for everyone who takes music way too seriously) is a sweet relief after obsessively pouring over record […]

So, I was sitting around the other night, re-reading some of my posts here on Sod. I do this often. It’s a great way to bask in my glory. But seriously, I was re-reading my music reviews so far, so I could decide what to review next. After reading through them all, I realized something […]