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Published in the Quad-City Times on Mar. 6, 2024 This weekend, I stood in a venue I’ve never been to, in a city I’ve never been to, listening to a song I’ve heard a million times, and I sobbed. Publicly, vulnerably, viscerally. It came during the last song of the night, “DON’T TELL THE BOYS,”
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Published in the Quad-City Times on Jan. 17, 2024 I hate the smell of leather. It has given me a headache since I was a five-year-old kid riding in the backseat of my dad’s car, which he always kept equipped with an air freshener that made the new car smell even more intense. His seats
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Published in the Quad-City Times on Mar. 27, 2024 When the weather inside gets colder than the weather outside, it’s time to grab the blankets. But it’s been a weird few weeks, and my favorite blankets have been getting thinner and thinner. I’m cold, and there’s nothing to light the furnace. The games I used
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Published in the Quad-City Times on June 26, 2024 Alright, I’ve got a problem. I can’t stop tweeting. As I’ve gotten older, X (gag) has drawn me in more and more every year. That’s certainly not because of its leadership. It’s mostly because I’ve followed enough musicians and music journalists to make it a great
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Published in the Quad-City Times on Oct. 25, 2023 This is a column about death. I’m sorry, but sometimes, we just have to talk about it. Once, I thought I was done for in a barn in South Dakota. I was 17, surrounded by my entire family at my brother’s wedding, and in as good
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Published in the Quad-City Times, Buffalo News, Omaha World-Herald & more on Apr. 26, 2024 Taylor Swift is a blank page in a coloring book. For years, she’s been handing her fans the crayons. This is her gift. Swift’s songs and persona balance specificity and abstraction in a way where both diehard and casual listeners
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Published in the Quad-City Times on Jan. 10, 2024 When I think of growing up in the desert, I think monochromatically. Those rolling, ragged hills of sepia, sienna and sandstone seemed to go on forever. I struggled to grasp the vastness. In my small hometown, at least 40 miles of nothing stood between me and
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Published in the Quad-City Times on Nov. 29, 2023 OK, we can take Mariah off ice now. There’s a joke on social media every year that the music industry gets to defrost Mariah Carey on Nov. 1. Once the “All I Want For Christmas Is You” singer is free, it opens the holiday music floodgates.
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Published in the Quad-City Times on Mar. 13, 2024 As I write this, I’m holding the first CD I ever purchased. Its jewel case is cracked and splintered. If you grab it at the wrong angle, you may cut your fingertips. One crack in the plexiglass stretches across the back cover, splitting the track list
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Published in the Quad-City Times on Sep. 24, 2024 Writing a Rozz-Tox column has been a long-time coming. Honestly, it’s overdue. As a lover of live music, tasty coffee and good late-night eats, the beloved Rock Island bar and café is perfect. I’ve seen a show there. I’ve had a drink there. I’ve covered events
Gannon Hanevold 