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That’s right my friends, this past weekend was the 3rd Annual Weinerfest festival down at the Southside Oktoberfest grounds.  If you’ve never heard of it, which was me 3 weeks ago, it’s kind of described as a one day Oktoberfest.  It’s basically one big party with music and drinks, but you can only eat hot [...]

I actually meant idle, but then you wouldn’t get pulled in by the American Idol reference. I’ll tell you upfront, I don’t watch American Idol.  I don’t really have anything against it, but I don’t really have anything good to say about it either.  I watched the first couple seasons because of all the hype, [...]

This past week was the World’s Largest Office Party in La Crosse.  It was full of events this year, include some good music acts.  The Remainders headed the main room from the start of the party.  They, of course, are never a disappointment.  The Remainders are mostly a classic rock cover band, with a few [...]

…without Jimmy Page?  So last night was the 51st Annual Grammy Awards on CBS.  There were a lot of good musicians and bands who either were up for an award or made their appearance in performance.  And there was a man who did both, by winning many awards and playing the last performance of the [...]

When you think of classic funk, you have to bring to mind the legendary James Brown.  Maybe even George Clinton & the Funkadelic if you like to groove to funk rock.  You can even argue that Jimi Hendrix and The Doors played some type of roll in the name of funk rock.  But these names [...]