This week's sporkful

Cosmonox ended the show Saturday night, and it just got weirder. Both members of Cosmonox appeared to play different things, but they ...

The Vardaman Ensemble was the second band on the bill Saturday night at Kelly's Olympian. The theme of multi-instrumentalism con...

I previously reviewed Dr. Something in May 2015 ( https://sporkful.blogspot.com/2015/05/band-review-dr-something.html ).  It took me a whi...

I thought I would have a lot to say about death. Now I am not sure that I do, but I wanted to get this one quote out of the way. "It...

I have been wanting to see The Slants live since I first reviewed them in 2017 . I recently saw that they were coming to Doug Fir Lounge wit...

Camp Crush was second on the bill. They also have a nostalgic focus. With a love for the 80s, and married couple Jen Deale and Chris Spice...

Shy Honey opened the Slants' farewell show Monday night at the Doug Fir Lounge. It was a good show. As a relatively new band, they cur...

I took this a few days ago as frost was coming. Tomatoes are kind of the easiest thing to grow, so often the only thing I am growing. Th...

The final October goal was to do a month of monster songs. I have done some other Halloween stuff. I have read some more macabre material ...

This also did not go as planned, but things still worked out. I was not sure I could come up with 31 different costume ideas that were doa...

I know the month isn't over yet, but I had set some October goals, and this seems like a good time to go over them. I want to blog about...

I loved this album! My personal favorite track is "Pin the Grenade", but "Heaven" and Darkside" are strong conten...

Friday brought me to tears. Things worked out, but with enormous stress. We recently took our dog in for her three year rabies vaccine. Th...

The Brat was a classic punk band from East L.A. at a time when which side of L.A. you were on made a difference. They embraced their Chicano...

In some of the earlier album reviews I have written about bands changing and growing, but also what still sounds familiar. Fall Out Boy ha...

I have never made any secret of my love for fall, and of Halloween specifically. I will be celebrating this month in three ways. First of ...

The first thing I should tell you is that there are three bands that go by "The Zeros" and they are all punk. This is not the Brit...

Most of the album reviews will be for bands I have already reviewed, and usually that I have seen in concert. I came across a new release fr...

One reason I want to move my reading to focus more on Native authors for November and Black authors for February, et cetera, is that in some...

Last year's reading covered a lot regarding education and residential schools too, but this year was largely built upon one list: http...