Jeff Laughlin is the co-founder of this blog and avid conversationalist. He has bounced around the music review world as Program Director for WUAG 103.1 in Greensboro, North Carolina, the now defunct ampcamp.com and kevchino.com. He runs the widely ignored and content-failure laden Insigniatic Cancer and the not so oft-updated And Here Come the Pretzels. Also, beards.
Paul R. Nair is the co-founder of this blog along with This Is Depression and has been known to talk about music from the United Kingdom. He is not a cat.
Scott Townsend listened to primarily nothing but the Monkees from when he was 5 until 12 years old. Then, when Krist Novoselic opened the drapes in the Santa-Jesus’ hospital room at the close of the “Heart-Shaped Box” video, his eyes were opened by that bright white light to a world of sounds he would never look back from. He’s been in countless bands and is currently a member of Video Daughters. He helped preform Ryhs Chatham’s “A Crimson Grail, for 200 Electric Guitars” . Dock Ellis is his hero. He still listens to the Monkees.
Will Fabro’s musical career began in earnest as a child, when he excelled at both piano and accordion (he has since forgotten both). Things took a downward turn when he was kicked out of a teenage garage punk band (of all things) for being an untalented guitar player. His dream of being a musician finally hit its nadir when his country band disbanded at the end of college. He now writes short fiction.
Tedd Wood will talk to you about music. He will. He authors We Haven’t Had That Spirit Here Since 1999 and works harder on trying to reinvent 1996-2002 than he does on his career. Actually, I think everyone here might do that. He plays in Industries of the Blind.
Matt Taylor grew up around classical music and played the flute from age 12 to 23. The highlight was playing Queen in the University of Georgia marching band, but he hasn’t played the flute since. He resides in Atlanta and maintains a personal blog.
Burton Parker has kids, a grill and frequently listens to things called “musics.” He is also known as Welvis and is the funniest man on the planet if it is the middle of the week. He works for Blue Collar Distro. That place rules.
Kris Liakos is a frequent contributor for walkoffwalk and is an infrequent contributor to your life if you are lucky enough to have him.
Justin M. is a college student with an incurable adoration of baseball that can be seen at 3:10 To Joba and Walkoff Walk. He attempts to alleviate his omnipresent boredom by listening to music and blogging from your mom’s basement.
Dean Blumberg is a die-hard Red Sox fan, a self-proclaimed pop-culture philosopher, and a graduate teaching assistant at Appalachian State University. As a music listener, Dean finds the acoustics of his tiled bathroom to be exemplary, and at least one of his ten listens will occur on a toilet. His features for popmatters.com are forthcoming. He will graduate with an M.A. in Rhetoric & Composition in May, 2010 and then proceed to look for suitable employment. deanblumberg@gmail.com
Joe O’Brien is a man. He’s a man who loves hard rock. If there were a think tank devoted to hard rock, he would be an obvious choice to hang around their foosball table, but never actually play.
B. Michael Payne web two-ohs at The Cost of B. Michael’s Truly Epic Shit, The Mondegreen, and various things linked from there.
Ben Worcester got his first two albums of music on Christmas morning, 1993. Waiting for him under the tree: Made in U.S.A. by The Beach Boys and The Essential by Little Richard. They have remained in his rotation ever since. These days, Ben spends most of his time a peepin’ and a hidin’ around the New York metropolitan area. When he finds time, he will update benworcester.com with some nonsense. He is new here.
Drew Fairservice has a baseball mind and a musical penchant, but don’t hold that against him. He contributes to walkoffwalk.com and ghostrunneronfirst. Baseball is awesome, though. It really is.
Joey Nelson is the the technical/web adviser for this site and you can contact him here.