Some Kinds of Love

I'll be playing a show here in Madison on Valentine's Day and another in Chicago the following Friday.

The theme, especially for the Valentine's show, is "Some Kinds of Love." That's both my tribute to the late great Lou Reed and what all the songs I'll play that night are about. All different kinds of love. I really don't write much about romantic love, especially straightforward 'I love you, can't live without you' kind of stuff (which often makes me puke) - but there is some of it. And love of world, friends, music, neighborhood,... [read more]

Stephanie Rearick Jr. w/ Matt Owen and the Electric Tuba!

I just finished a brand new song I'll be debuting at the show. Plus the one I
debuted at my last show. And since it's Valentine's Day I'll have to play the
only song I have that relates (and one of my favorites) "Ferris Wheel" (attn
John W).

This is a Stephanie Rearick Jr. show, although I am starting to play more
mixed shows again, especially when there's a piano available.

Matt Owen and The Eclectic Tuba is an instrumental psychedelic space-funk
group that originated on Mars and migrated toward... [read more]

Chicago Arts Journal - Review of Yes Face by The Crooked Mouth

Once upon a time there was an album called Yes Face by the band The Crooked Mouth.

That's how I wanted to begin this review of the album called Yes Face by the band The Crooked Mouth. It's a beginning that would have paid homage to Ada Grey, a young blogger whose theater criticism is well-known to most fringe folks in Chicago. I wanted to begin the way Ada begins because I also wanted to end the way she ends: People who would like this album are people who like asses, wistfulness, losing friends, googling tsunamis, big tits, children... [read more]