Sure, there are plenty of poppy punk bands that mistake Halloween for Valentine’s Day, and take pleasure in describing their heartbreak in visceral terms cribbed from horror films.
Wending his way through his childhood, parents’ divorce, Little League career, and attempts to get girls, Mulgrew is both amusing and offensive in this Harper Perennial book.
Frightened Rabbit began as a vehicle for a mopey Scot named Scott to vent his post breakup angst, but the band has outgrown its humble, therapeutic beginnings.
Even those who defend the inoffensive “innovation” in mainstream country circa 2010 might take issue with Lady Antebellum, a Nashville trio that pulls off the semantic trick of being both utterly tasteful and completely bland.
This is Simon & Schuster’s second volume of unreasonably funny personal ads—“lonely hearts” they call them across the pond—culled from the London Review of Books.