Matt Grimm offers up a new campaign anthem. Line of the year: “What if ideas were the only things too big to fail?”
The grimm reality of Matthew Grimm: Saturday Video Roundup

It’s Matt Grimm Day at S&R and we’re celebrating music with a social conscience. Join us? We love great bands and artists of all stripes around here, but by now it’s probably […]
@Doc’s Best CDs of 2016 List

2016 was an odd year for music. But at least Bowie left us a masterpiece on his way out the door. If I were doing my year-end ratings and reviews the way I […]
Election Day. #HopeTuesday. TunesDay.
Three videos for Election Day. Who do we want to be? Some years ago Sean Kelly of The Samples penned what has to be the election day anthem. It acknowledges what we all […]
We’re in Dire Straits on Saturday Video Roundup
Today on SVR we honor Dire Straits, one of my all-time favorite bands. I will always remember the exact moment when I first heard Mark Knopfler’s opening note of “Down to the Waterline” […]
One big union: Happy Labor Day from Scholars & Rogues
Matthew Grimm sums it up nicely. When the paycheck just ain’t stretchin’ like it might’ve once before
Dear Hy-Vee: why are you supporting pro-slavery talk radio?

by Matthew Grimm Hy-Vee chain advertises on talk show that advocates immigration internment and slavery, then pretends a corporation its size has no leverage regarding when its ads air… I want to […]
Bernie Sanders is running! Now, let’s get him a theme song

Paging Matthew Grimm. Bernie is in. And I’m in for Bernie. One of the first things I thought was that the campaign needs a song. Maybe two. It needs an artist, one […]
What’s your favorite song by [band name here]?

Oh, I love that song. How many times have you been talking about music and somebody says hey, what’s your favorite tune by [fill in the blank]? I have no idea how […]
The best CDs of 2013 that I didn’t hear until 2014 (plus videos from all of the year’s best)

Happens every damned year. It gets to be December and you formulate an idea in your head about the best music of the twelvemonth (I always wanted to use that word in […]