Although playing haphazard cover songs gave Golden Smog its start in the late ’80s — and comprised the entirety of the group’s 1992 debut EP On Golden Smog — the alt-rock collective (including ex-Jayhawks Gary Louris and Marc Perlman, and […]
Nostalgia, like beer goggles, has a powerful distorting effect: Who wasn’t a little hipper, more fun and better-looking in the halcyon haze of our embellished memories? Nobody, that’s who. So consider this a caveat: Maybe Golden Smog wasn’t really all […]
Most bands, the good ones anyway, are formed between friends. The motivations to do so, especially in the case of young men, can be as simple as “It’ll be cool” and/or “It’ll make it easier to get girls.” Bands are […]
