By Nick Ubels (Once and Future CIVL DJ) – Email
Print Edition: April 10, 2013
In Aaron Levy’s abscence, Nick Ubels’ affiliations with CIVL made him the best substitute candidate in the office. Nick is the outgoing Cascade editor-in-chief and may be co-hosting Afternoons at The Cascade with Dessa Bayrock in the near future. Stay tuned for “newspaper on the radio.”
“Give my regards to Mr. Potter”
The Hold Steady – “Stuck Between Stations”
This song was the inspiration for the name of the CIVL music show I once hosted. Wild, literate and treading a fine line between Bruce Springsteen’s verbosity and dramatic flourish and Hüsker Dü’s hard midwestern edge, this is The Hold Steady at their rollicking best.
Bruce Springsteen – “No Surrender”
Speaking of The Boss, here’s my favourite cut from his blockbuster 1984 record. “We learned more from a three-minute record/ than we ever learned in school” pretty much sums it up.
The Jackson 5 – “Never Can Say Goodbye”
[Insert joke about how long it took for me to finally graduate.]
Game Theory – “Waltz the Halls Always”
UFV’s halls might be a little less lonely and bleak if you add a little sway to your step. Eighties American alt-rock icons Game Theory know a thing or two about looking for beauty in the mundanity of day-to-day life.
