Category: Blog

Four Out of Five Beers Agree: I Should Send This Text to My Ex

Bobby Korec • August 10, 2020

Whenever I have important life decisions like this "u up" text I have ready to fire off to my ex,…

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Personal Attack? This Musician Is Better Than Me

Jonah Nink • August 9, 2020

I don’t like to brag, but I don’t think it’s too far off for me to say that I’m a…

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We Rank These 5 Guitar Pickups Despite the Fact That They Sound Goddamned Identical

John Danek • August 8, 2020

We here at The Hard Times love guitar players! Sure, we might rag on them from time to time because…

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I’ll Listen to Your Demos If You Peep My Unfinished Accounts Receivable Claims

John Danek • August 7, 2020

Wow, that’s so incredibly gracious of you to reach out and share the carefully crafted demos you recorded in your…

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Is She Actually Into Herbal Medicine or Did She Just Lose Her Health Insurance?

Dom Turek • August 7, 2020

A Facebook friend’s apparent descent into the world of alternative medicine led me on an hours-long quest for the truth:…

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From ‘Meet the Fockers’ to ‘Little Fockers.’ We Dropped the Ball on Our Robert De Niro Retrospective

Dan Luberto • August 6, 2020

Robert De Niro. Just saying his name evokes images of some true American classics. In the world of cinema, few…

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Here’s a Made up Story About the Recording of Pearl Jam’s ‘Ten’ Because the Real One Is Super Boring

Jonah Nink • August 5, 2020

So we're about halfway through the second paragraph of the Wikipedia for ‘Ten’ and the only thing we've learned so…

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The Government Can’t Tell Me What to Do. That’s the Church’s Job

Nick Ortolani • August 3, 2020

If there’s one thing I’m sick of, it’s these out-of-touch bureaucrats in Washington telling me how to live my life.…

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The Only Thing That Stops a Bad Guy With a Gun Is His Union Rep Telling Him to Take a Paid Leave Until All This Blows Over

James Knapp • August 2, 2020

As a police union representative, let me say this in plain English for all you darn snowflakes trying to defund…

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We Sit Down With Legendary Chart-Toppers “Various Artists”

Alex Salcido • August 1, 2020

No matter how old you are or where you’re from, you likely grew up listening to iconic chart-topping kings, "Various…

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