new year’s revolutions

Note: posting this early since I’m travelling and won’t be by a computer on Sunday proper – well, American Sunday, anyway. It’s Sunday in New Zealand. But whatever. The point is, don’t miss Ramon’s excellent rant, located just below this!

Hi everyone,

I’m writing this from the South Island town of Methven, which [...]

Attention, Ian the Pussy Local Music DJ!!!!!

[Editor's Note: The following blog is a histrionic response to about approximately 3 minutes of comments by Ian Wells - one of the Local DJ's at KTRU. Given the fact that Ramon has been known to talk out of his ass at times and his drunken giddiness for the colorful epithets more than likely [...]

Postscript: Speaking of local shows and great music.

Check out these shows this weekend.

Tonight it’s De Schmog (with Kilian), Bright Men of Learning, and Jug O Lightening. See you there!

New years Eve Shows I’d like to see but I can only tax the grandparents so much…

Ume, Sharks and Sailors, Bring back the Guns – that is just [...]

Best of 2006 List

It was twenty years ago—not exactly today, but sometime in 2006—that my high school “new wave” band played one its handful of shows at the Maceba Theater on Main Street in Houston. The Maceba was—I think—a movie theater that was on Main Street, just south of Alabama. I think it’s entirely gone now. It [...]

Week 9: 9 Musical and 9 Sort of Musical Predictions for 2007

Well, we had a beautiful xmas. No tree, no gift exchange, no lights, just a beautiful baby girl, an incredible wife and me. If every christmas was like this I would never again complain about cold weather.

And as if this wasn’t enough, I had asked Electramummy to send me a CD of Alaskan [...]

Me, James Brown, and the Beautiful People

Written in a log cabin on a little old country road in South Texas not far from Edna, the small town with the equal sized heart. If you ain’t from around here, drive on.September eleventh two thousand and one, nine am eastern, found me on the western slope of the Rockies painting gigantic alder [...]

Celine Dion

I want to devote my entire post for this week on a topic that just doesn’t get enough play in the NAP: Celine Dion.

Well okay, not really.

First off, I hope everyone had a good Christmas. Mine was heading for the shitter in a big way when a change of scenery and a [...]

The re-examination of the classic pop

Hello, and Merry Christmas from New York City. My name is Matthew Daniel Thurman, and I have been invited by the curators to be the guest blogger for this Holiday edition. It means the world to me to contribute to such a valuable enterprise as this, and those of you that are familiar with [...]

mare regrets moose

It’s Christmas Eve in New Zealand right now as I type this, but I probably won’t post (in order to give people a chance to see Ramon’s post) until tomorrow (which obviously will be today when you read this, unless it turns out to be yesterday), which is Christmas Day for me but most [...]

How to rock and fuck it up at the same time!

Success is measured by how often you fall flat on your face. Last week’s show was a testament to that as it seems that for everything that went well something else went horribly wrong.

The week didn’t start well. I have to admit I was a bit annoyed that the Houston Press gave the [...]