Blog: BowlingStone.com

It's been three weeks since my first Arkells post, and I'm still hooked on the Canadian indie/alt-rock band. Tonight's tune, The Ballad of Hugo Chavez, was released as the second single, on April 27, 2009, in support of the band's debut LP Jackson Square . The song was selected as the follow-up single to Oh, the Boss Is Coming after winning an online fan-vote. It took me a while to figure out the chorus line "in the night of the sun". After I did some reading on Hugo Chavez , and learned that while [...]