In 2013, Trout was diagnosed with hepatitis C, leading to a liver transplant, complications and a long, painful rehabilitation. The new album is Trout in his most electrified glory, enraptured by simply being alive.
I move on trying to play catch-up with a mountain of new album releases, with just barely a breath to mention the passings of underground comic author Harvey Pekar and counterculture figure Tuli Kupferberg, co-frontman and songwriter for The Fugs. Let's
In terms of my daughter's summer break, the season is nearly at an end. Back-to-school time has become something of a bittersweet ritual in the eight years that I've spent at home with her since being relieved of my graphic design career in 2001. I've be