Another Idea

The Satyricon is a Portland punk rock landmark. It’s supposedly where Kurt and Courtney first met, on a night when Nirvana opened a show for the Dharma Bums. The Wipers, Poison Idea, Dead Moon, and Napalm Beach appear repeatedly on a wall covered in old flyers in the back room of the club. It [...]

things i thought of while thinking of texas

One of the last times I was in Texas was touring with dead and gone. We were out together with this band The Locust. I know we played in El Paso, Houston, then on to Emos in Austin, And finally Dallas. Man I always liked going to that city, Austin more than the [...]

Something I Thought of While Hurting Myself

“May you live long enough to look back on your regrets and see them as nothing more than what they really can be. Mistakes that can be turned into damaged and funny stories told amongst friends.”

I thought of the above bastardized, plagiarized, and paraphrased from somewhere unknown saying, while running the stairs behind [...]

Doggerel for Diddley

This post comes courtesy of Brad Tyer – Houston 90s music scene royalty if you ask me (though he might claim otherwise). Fortunately, nobody asked him. I’m glad someone mentioned the passing of Diddley in here. That guy… Well, thanks Brad. Any takers for next week’s guest spot? Submit to contributetonap@gmail.com . Lay it [...]

Saturday Guest Post: Ted Plank

Tonight in Los Angeles 2 rockabilly legends are playing, Glen Glenn and Mac Curtis. By this point in time most practitioners of that particular subgenre are under the sod. Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, Elvis, Carl Perkins, Charlie Feathers, Johnny Burnette, all gone. There is an upcoming Las Vegas conclave of the Last Survivors Of [...]

Saturday Guest Post: Blag Dahlia

Alright kids, today in lieu of the post we were waiting on that never actually arrived, we will instead present you with this little nugget of egotistical idiocy courtesy of one of the most egotistical idiots in all of rock: The Dwarves’ Blag Dahlia. Blag was contacted (along with with a laundry list of [...]