
Welcome, all. You have found my very first blog entry. I've been thinking about starting one since I got back from vacation a couple of weeks ago. I was sitting on the beach in Destin, FL relaxing, enjoying the sun, water, and a few cold ones from the cooler when I realize I left my Mp3 speakers in my suitcase. So all I've got for music is the beach neighbors boom box playing local radio with the same boring old songs I've heard a hundred times and of course those annoying commercials. It really got me thinking [...]
Oh No! He Didin't! Bassist Justin San Souci is leaving the Matches : [It disarranges us to relay that our long-time bassist and friend, Justin San Souci, will be parting from the role of bassist in the Matches to pursue other lives and loves. He, however, will not be parting from the role of friend. Change is not an easy thing, but it does not stop until life does. Our hearts go out to Justin for being brave and true to his heart's pursuit.]
The last time we went to the grocery store, my mother told me that I should lay off of pre-packaged and frozen special-made vegetarian and vegan foods because they are too expensive and I need to be more resourceful. After all, when I am in college, I will need to learn to cook. By the [...]
The House That I Built and Other Links To Soothe Hard Feelings by Alex Carnevale Sketches of the new Yankee Stadium hit the news yesterday. I felt some satisfaction in knowing that I paid for some of it. Amazingly Rudy Giuliani, representing the city of New York as a lame duck mayor, agreed to pay half of [...]
I realized after writing last year's review of the Matches' sophomore effort, Decomposer, that I had done so a bit prematurely. In that review, I essentially wrote that the band sacrificed catchiness in order to take a more experimental, artsy approach to their music. After listening to Decomposer several more times, I realized [...]

Sadly, The Wheel's Still In Spin will not be going to SXSW this year. But we can still dream. Here is a list of the bands that we would most like to see at SXSW for Sat, March 15, 2008 . There are links to each artist's band page at SXSW.com with a short quote, when available, from the band's bio that appears on that page. 1:30PM - [...]
Notorious Hillary-supporter Jack Nicholson spoke up for Hilldawg on the eve of what is destined to be her greatest victory. Relive Molly's classic jaunt in Nicholsonville nowsy. Death of a Ladies Man by Molly Lambert "Look, I have Reichian therapy in my background. Early on, I had problems with that most common kind of impotence, being quick, [...]

How do you feel about the Matches? I'd describe them as an acquired taste, but not in the way that, say, sushi is an acquired taste. The Matches are more like something that's delicious, only in a way that's different from what you're used to. What I'm saying here is that sushi isn't good, while the Matches are, in fact, good. With me? Excellent. The reason you should care about all this nonsense is that the Matches have a pre-order bundle going on over at Loserkids , [...]

Update: I'm an idiot for not including mewithoutYou's Brother, Sister on this list. Beautiful album, beautiful lyrics. That is all. mewithoutYou - A Glass Can Only Spill What It Contains It's February, and you know what that means: Best of 2006 lists! Yeah, I apologize for the very late posting of my favorite albums of last year, but I've had an ungodly amount of things to do in the past several weeks and am still not through with it. Nevertheless, I [...]

Yesterday, the Emo Sommelier looked back at two of the biggest emo acts of 2006: My Chemical Romance and Panic! At The Disco. After the click-through, part two of his year-in-sullenness, featuring some of his favorite songs of the year. Panic! and MCR may have been TRL darlings for most of 2006, but there were plenty of other artists who proved that we're in the midst of a vibrant, burgeoning emo scene. These are the songs that music critics were probably enjoying guiltily--or hating on--when they weren't preoccupied by praising the "intensity" of [...]
When we've read all the magazines, listened to all the mp3s, and placed our final eBay bids for that ultra-rare, fur-lined Karen O Beanie Baby we've been eyeing, the staff here at YuppiePunk World HQ turn their bloodshot eyes to the endless ream of search terms logged by Google, Yahoo!, MSN, Technorati et al that drive readers to this site (that very well may have been the longest sentence in the