Sports Illustrated has just published a significant feature about my dear friend’s inspirational life, and heroic death. And as fantastic and amazing as this is, it still sucks. I believe the word ‘bittersweet‘ was created with this very situation in mind. Please pick up the March 12 issue, grab a box of Kleenex, find a [...]
An amigo of mine, Ronnie Vannucci, just released a record… a side project under the name Big Talk. If he were anyone else it’d be good enough to be a main project. But since he’s the drummer for the Killers, well, it’s just a side project. This is a great good record about women and [...]
This is the eulogy I gave for my friend, Timothy Neuer. (Here’s the backstory.) Whenever someone is lost unexpectedly, especially someone as young and vibrant as Tim, friends and family tend towards hyperbole. We often hear that the departed was the kindest, the happiest, and the most selfless person they knew. We hear that “it [...]
As many friends have found, it doesn’t take very long for me to steer music conversations towards the topic of Ours, which is, from what I can tell, the best band nobody’s ever heard. Not just because I’ve had the honor of recording and touring with them. But because frontman Jimmy Gnecco has the best [...]