I was 35 when the V-Roys released their debut, Just Add Ice, and you’d have thought I was too long in the tooth to fall so hard for a band. But with nods toward every shelf of my record collection (their Replacements/Records/Rockpile blend betraying an extra affinity with the R’s) and with a sound that [...]

Cacophonous and caffeinated, Claire is clicking at her clackety keyboard on the teensy end of a.m., fatiguing along like the good little spit-shined she-soldier she wishes she were. And the metaphor is aptly wrapped, for like a bulging bugler (heavily into reveille), Claire has something to trumpet up your sun-up. Just recent, my decent (I’d [...]