When I'm not rocking a band shirt, I rock Barack! I picked up this sweet shirt at the Barack Obama acceptence speech at the DNC. I walked past dozens and dozens of street venders selling every manor of Obama/Biden memorbelia. I was looking for just the right Barack Obama shirt to show my support. Then I laid eyes on this gem. Instantly, my inner Star Wars geek appeared and I had found my first momento for the day and the perfect shirt.

Now that the election is over, we should all be thinking "May The Force Be With You Obama-Wan". May the newest Jedi lead the galaxy on new path of peace and prosperity.

Let me preface this post with the disclaimer that I'm a straight male who remembers the eighties, had a sister who listened to "Hangin' Tough" repeatedly  and inherited my dads love of Southern Rock. So my opinion is certainly biased. I'm sure many of you have a completely different memory of NKOTB but in my opinion Mark Wahlburg was definitely the best thing to come out of New Kids On The Block; give me the Funky Bunch any day. When I think back to those days I remember 5 guys in their late teens, dressed in the latest (now infamous) 80s pop fashion dancing on Opera Winfrey. Not a memory I try to dwell on by any means but like I said before; many of you will have different recollections.

Now that NKOTB is back on tour after more than ten years, I thought it would be fun to look back at the essential shirts of NKOTB way back when. If you asked any young lady of the eighties they had their favorite. Was it Danny, or was it Joey? Maybe you had the hots for Jordan, Joey or Donnie. My personal favorite was the most short lived and arguably the most far sighted of the group, Mark Wahlburg, who walked when he quickly lost his appetite for bubblegum pop.

Without further delay, here is a taste of the NKOTB t-shirt fashion from the late eighties. I'm sure if you think hard you can remember your sister wearing one of these shirts, singing her heart out to Please Don't Go Girl.

Well jam-band fans, it's been six long months sense Gov't Mule has been on the road but the wait is finally over. If a jamming show and a probable Cortez The Killer isn''t reason enough to get you out to their nearest tour stop, it might interest you to know that they''ll be back with a new base player. Jorgen Carlsson  is replacing long time member Andy Hess for what the Mule has dubbed The Kinder Revolution Tour. New tour, cool tour name, I can only dream of the sweet new shirts Gov't Mule [...]

As any self respecting Phish fan already knows, Phish has finally announced the end of their second hiatus with three shows at the Hampton Coliseum in Hampton, Virginia in March 2009. Although very few of us will be lucky enough to attend any of these shows (or be able to afford to go) we will all be able to enjoy the new Phish shirts that are bound to be released. But what excites me more than new official Phish shirts is whats bound to come out of the lot scene. Those masters of pirate merchandise have [...]

Yesterday afternoon, the weather was scorching. The sun baked rocks were vibrating heat waves, and I had the windows down as far as they would go. I could feel the heat coming through the floorboards, and the wind was blowin the hair back. I had Led Zeppelin 4 cranking through the speakers, and when the speed limit hit sixty five, I had to turn it up loud to hear it over the wind… That thumping, driving beat of ‘Four Sticks’ came on, and had me bobbing my head, thumping my hand on the door, and grinning like a damn fool.

While not usually my favorite band, the latest Coldplay album did have me turning up the volume for some of the piano-driven riffs and choruses. It's an album that begs to be played loud, and the concert reviews I've read suggest that Coldplay is attempting to become the U2 of our generation with this new album and tour.

As for the shirt, its a snappy green with the classic wookie logo on the front and the logo to their new album "Activate" on the back. As for the band...