Welcome, rocker nation, to the newest episode of Rock it Out! Blog. Every Friday, host Sami Jarroush rounds together an esteemed panel of critics, musicians, and comedians to discuss the week’s biggest headlines live from our new set at JBTV in downtown Chicago.
This week’s panel features Consequence of Sound Publisher Alex Young, White Mysteryvocalist/guitarist Alex White, and Walter Flakus, the afternoon host of Chicago’s WKQX-FM and member of Stabbing Westward and The Dreaming. They share their thoughts on this year’s Grammy Awards, including Kanye West’s now-infamous comments on Beck’s Album of the Year victory, and they also discuss Spider-Man joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The last 20 years have been full of two-piece garage rock outfits with colors in their names. For a while it was even hard to tell them all apart. The White Stripes even tried to stand out by lying about being siblings—but nobody really bought that.
Chicago-based White Mystery is another in the line of guitar-and-drums duos, but they don’t have to pretend to be related to get ahead. They’re brother and sister for real, and their matching red muppet-manes of hair proves that they sprang from the same ginger gene pool. They also rock harder than any family band since the Shaggs. (more…)
