We almost never get the kind of national election campaigning in Texas that we’ve gotten over the last couple weeks, but with the Democratic candidates running neck and neck, you can’t turn around in Houston without running into one of them. I was in a convenience store just yesterday buying a Coke and a [...]
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My friend, Todd Cobra, excellent songwriter, guitarist and rocker from bands like The Spinns and The Gondoliers continues his guest post series, the Rock Chronicles… Chronicles… Chronicles… * * * Rock Chronicle 2: Ohio River I woke up in a third story loft apartment, downtown Cincinnati, OH. I soon realized I [...] We passed droves of sun thirsty wanderers on the Lake Shore Sunday afternoon on our way to Andrew D’Angelo’s Benefit show. First time we hit the Green Mill earlier than 2 in the morning. First up (and first down) some tastey Bloody Maries. On stage, Tortoise alums Jeff Parker and Rob Mazurek mixed [...] He is sitting at the sushi counter, it’s 10:30 at night. He is alone. He has a slight frame, is fairly conservatively dressed, and keeps to himself. Before him is a small, single serving shrimp cocktail. The shrimp is fairly old and is slightly gamey. He eats it anyway. His body language is an [...] Number of people killed in a car accident in the U.S. in 2006: 42,642.Number of people murdered in the U.S. in 2006: 17,034.Some people have made the rough conclusion that it’s safer to live in a city (where the crime rate is presumed to be higher) than it is to live in the suburbs [...] I know we all like themes, but honestly, after much (i.e. a couple of seconds) thought, the only one I could come up with was “what I felt like listening to Saturday morning”. So there. Click here to get your own [...] On Thursday I got a call asking if I wanted to go shoot the debut live performance of a friend of a friend’s band. Said band was a side project of a local punk band but was “gangsta rap”. As these were all white boys I took this as an ill omen and my [...] There was never a more under-appreciated vocalist than the great Heino. I own about 5 Heino records and am always impressed by their singular quality. Nothing quite has been able to approach that Heino sound – that golden tenor. Perhaps Heino is under-appreciated here in the States because he is too alien and challenging. [...] I don’t have anything to say this week (not that it matters). Here are some long-haired Germans. Here is more. Andrew d’Angelo is a composer and saxophonist and you can hear his music here. He was one of my housemates when I first moved to New York, and I just found this out, so I’m gutted at the moment. He has suffered a seizure and has had a cancerous brain tumor removed, but still [...] |
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