Much more than your average vegan Communist infidel, I can identify with red-state America because in addition to the John Zorn and Acid Mothers Temple we're having our wedding band play this August, my fiancée and I wanna slow-dance to two songs: Sixpence None the Richer's "Kiss Me" and "I'll Be," by rootsy South Carolina frat fave Edwin McCain. Even after millions of spins on AAA radio, "I'll Be" gives me goosebumps: Few love songs employ the future tense, so when McCain assures his beloved that he'll "be better when I'm older," his fierce, pragmatic devotion cuts through the empty hyperbole to which our ears... More >>>