i am not going to get into my obvious disappointment of the turnout of sunday evenings game. the first half was decent, the second half looked as if my alma mater, chicago christian high school’s jv team could have man handled them bears. whatever, sure it would have been nice but the selfish bastard in me didnt want them to win cause i could not be in chicago to partake in the festivities.
one band that i have been diggin on over the past 6-8 months, which in my head was more like 2 years, is the roadside graves and their self titled debut. my first listen to the roadside graves was not one of immediate satisfaction, it was actually quite the opposite. i couldn’t quite tell if i was supposed to take them seriously or not. strangely enough, there is nothing jokey about them at all but “jesus is a friend of the family” kind of struck the annoyance nerve right off the bat. luckily there was just way too much to like to let my initial listen keep me from venturing forth. anyways, the boys in the roadside graves have a new ep out entitled what happened to him could happen to anyone. it features a couple of tracks of off said debut, a couple of unreleased songs, and the lead track, “west coast,” off of their soon to be released lp, no one will know where you’ve been. “west coast” is a bouncy little number with a chorus that hast been replaying in my heads for the past few days. there is something about “west coast” that reminds me of the band. i maybe totally off base, though.
