In honor of a third straight year with a series against Minnesota. Because three is a magic number.
When the Hawks pull it out and set it on the table during a series clincher – you get to celebrate a bit. The Wild/Blues game just got started and there’s clearly plenty of reason to watch as it dictates who the Hawks play next. It’s Sunday afternoon so you hopefully don’t have anything to do other than sit back, have a beer and watch some hockey. Why not make it a 11% bourbon aged barley wine? It’ll at least make sure you get to sleep real early tonight…
When longtime drummer Brian St. Clair left Local H to battle prostate cancer, it obviously left a sizeable hole to fill in a two-man band with guitarist/vocalist Scott Lucas wanting to continue his endeavors. Enter the bearded Ryan Harding, who has been playing with the band for the last two years.
Harding had previously played Brüder and Ghost Towns of the West, and is the only member in the group’s history without explicit roots in the Chicago area, coming from Minnesota. But his prowess behind the kit certainly lives up to the lofty standards set by both Joe Daniels and Brian St. Clair previously during the band’s now 25 year history, especially on the band’s new record Hey, Killer. And neither of them could boast as full and rugged of a beard as Harding.
Like a house guest that simply won’t go away no matter how many explicit hints are dropped at just how irritating he is, the Predators are still in this series.
So it’s with that the roommate’s bearded boyfriend Bevers on Broad City is honored today. With no boundaries whatsoever, Bevers encroaches both the personal space of others as well as anything that could be considered within the realm of good taste within the construct of the social contract.
For twenty years now, George Rebelo has provided the precise yet powerful percussion backbone to one of modern punk rock’s most stalwart acts, Hot Water Music. And that balance of precision and power can just as equally be found in his jet black beard.
Hot Water Music has always toured relentlessly throughout the years, their with their live shows being truly energetic affairs. So when the band found itself on hiatus due to co-frontman Chuck Ragan’s desire to be with his family and sow his acoustic oats, Rebelo was enlisted to help out a fellow Gainseville, Florida act, none other than Against Me!. Rebelo contributed his skills to 2010’s White Crosses, and toured with the band intermittently. Hot Water Music themselves have since reformed, released new material for the first time in seven years in 2012 with Exister, and most recently pressed a limited edition quadruple-LP vinyl compilation to commemorate their 20th anniversary. And where ever the band may find itself next, it can be assured that the bearded Rebelo will be providing the drumming for it.
Because last night’s game was long enough to give anyone PTSD, and the result enough to make someone want to hump the fridge.
Much like the lineup decisions of of Joel Quenneville, the lyrics of At The Drive-In and Mars Volta lead singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala can be positively inscrutable. And while known more for his wild mop of curly hair that flails in the breeze during the wild and sometimes spastic live performances of both bands, Zavala often sports an equally unkempt beard.
At The Drive-In emerged out out of El Paso, TX in the late 90s and early aughts with post-hardcore bombast and a limitless array of tempo changes augmented by incredible live shows. But just as the band reached the apex of its popularity after the release of Relationship of Command in 2000, the band fractured into two offshoots- the more radio friendly (but still challenging) inclinations of guitarist and co-song writer Jim Ward and his band Sparta, while Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez formed the even more baffling Mars Volta, channeling their dormant prog rock inclinations. At The Drive-In has since reunited for the occasional one-off festival show, but new material seems out of the question. But no matter the project, Bixler-Zavala and his hair and beard will surely challenge listeners both in their patience hoping for a new ATDI release while also pushing new sonic boundaries.
For the disaffected youth of the greater Chicagoland area, the perpetually bearded and long haired Jerry Bryant is nothing short of a saint. His long-running cable access show, JBTV (originally on Ch. 62) has been a haven for interviews, live performances, and music videos that even the so-called “alternative” radio stations wouldn’t touch.
JBTV has always been self-produced, directed, and hosted by Bryant himself, with his signature look ever whitening as the years trudge on, never losing his intimidatingly phallic microphone. Even having now done his show for over 30 years, Bryant has never lost his enthusiasm for the music or the format, and that fact should be admired just as much as his magnificent hair and beard.
John Wick, played by Keanu Reeves, is someone you don’t want to make angry. Someone you shouldn’t get on your bad side. We need a bit of an asskicker today. Hopefully the Hawks respond to the last minute embarrassment the same way Wick does when you kill his puppy.
Doug Benson doesn’t always have a beard but more often than not you’ll likely find him rocking some stubble or a short beard. Whether this is because he prefers to have facial hair or he simple gets so stoned that he forgets to shave is unknown. Doug is one of the world’s more vocal advocate for the use of marijuana. His movies include The Greatest Movie Ever Rolled and Super High Me, one of his Podcasts is Getting Doug With High, and he’s named albums Gateway Doug… this guy loves pot. And it certainly looked like the Hawks joined him at the end of that third… or maybe Jarret Stoll just spiked their water bottles.
