When Punk Rockers have kids something has to give, or does it. In the new Documentary from Rare Birds Films called The Other F Word Writer and Director Andrea Blaugrund Nevins digs into fatherhood through the eyes of a bunch of guys whose fathers were largely not there. The documentary is ...

I’ll be the first to admit, I’m not that great a guitar player. Sure, I felt like some sort of demi-god playing the plastic button slapping guitars of Guitar Hero and Rock Band but in the back of my head I knew that playing a plastic guitar did not make ...

I’ll be the first to admit, I’m not that great a guitar player. Sure, I felt like some sort of demi-god playing the plastic button slapping guitars of Guitar Hero and Rock Band but in the back of my head I knew that playing a plastic guitar did not make ...

Like all genres of music, the genre of nerdcore has it’s annual gathering, the apex of live performances in a 2-day music festival called Nerdapalooza. Regardless of the genre classification, Nerdapalooza is a high energy gathering with a solid and continuous line-up of musical performances and straight up fun. Over ...

Every “brand” of music has a culmination. An apex that forms after years of toiling away in a genre; basically the whole “cream rising to the top” theory. There is an evolution in music that sometimes takes years to form, or sometimes it’s much quicker. For example, I’m from the ...

I love geology. I’ve always been interested in rocks, the Earth and changes to the land. My mom’s rock identification book was one that I pored over as a child. My favorite rock looked like an Oreo. That may or may not have been a coincidence. I had quite a ...

You might not ordinarily associate “law school dean” with indie rock, but Bill Childs, professor and associate dean at Western New England College of Law, might force you to reconsider.  With his children Ella and Liam, Bill hosts “Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child,” a radio show (WRSI & Valley ...

First the “how to,” then the story behind it. How to activate the explicit content filter on Pandora: Blocking explicit content on your child’s Pandora account is actually very simple. Once you have logged in to your child’s account, click on account in the upper right corner of the screen. This ...