K. Got to airport 3 hrs before flight. Easy check-in but then realized I forgot my smokes. Got one off a pensive dude who seemed glad I interrupted his train of thought. Joey C arrived and we chatted about my Amoeba show and how exciting it is to play South America. My...
A pro in the music business makes it look easy but, for a real pro, it is easy. They have the music imbued so deeply in their fiber that all they have to do is walk on stage, or into a studio, and the magic just happens. They just have fun and we get pure musical...
Remember your favorite Nineties alternative rock band? I’ll give you a minute. Got it? Was it Nirvana ― with their disposed "Smells Like Teen Spirit" ― or maybe Hole? Maybe Weezer made the list, or perhaps the Smashing Pumpkins. There...
K. Got to airport 3 hrs before flight. Easy check-in but then realized I forgot my smokes. Got one off a pensive dude who seemed glad I interrupted his train of thought. Joey C arrived and we chatted about my Amoeba show and how exciting it is to play South America. My...
Are we dancin' this dance again awready? Awright youse, this is gettin' a little ridiculous – wasn't I jus' 'ere? Well, lucky fer youse, the music business is feelin' generous this week so I tracked down about forty new tunes 'at fell...
In his life (as well as over the course of the thirty years since it was abruptly ended), John Lennon was many things to many people. From 1962 forward, he's been regarded as a singer, a guitarist, a brilliant songwriter, a genius, a tortured soul, misunderstood,...
Time is a funny, most inspiring thing. If one trips through the volumes of history, it's possible to find discussions about time and the passage of it in the discourses of the greatest thinkers in human history and each one of them has a slightly different take on...
Since the genre really began to take shape in 1974, the boundaries, forms and shapes of punk rock have been torn down, torn apart and reassembled and rebuilt so often that it was become difficult to gauge what “is” and “isn't” punk rock...
After selling out stadiums in Japan and selling millions of records over the last 25+ years, X Japan have finally brought their over the top live show to the shores of North America, and their stop in Oakland on September 29, 2010 was nothing short of...
Ever been in a situation where, while you're sure you know where you are and are well familiar with those around you, you can't get a sense of place and feel like a stranger in a strange land? It can be a more disconcerting sensation than being hopelessly lost...