A very small history of Pub Rock

By ms_rosa

My apologies for the long length. I originally wanted to post only part this piece and then update it on my personal blog Ditchwater as a serialized article. As it happened, it rained all day and I couldn’t stop researching and writing. So here it is in its entirety.
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Kippington Lodge was a mid 60s [...]

July 10th, 2008 | Tags: | 3 comments

Guest blah-blah-blogger Rosa

By ms_rosa

Hi there. Rosa here acting as a bookmarker for the wise and wonderful storyteller/acoustic string afficionado Carlos Anaconda.
I had originally thought I would be blogging about Pub Rock, but it turns out to be much denser material than I thought it would be so I’ll need another week of emailing back and forth with people [...]

July 3rd, 2008 | Tags: | 3 comments

is this thing on?

By ms_rosa

mr. anaconda is setting his priorities straight this week and is hopefully frolicking on a beach with his family as we speak. he’s allowed me to take over his show today. so now without further a-do…”ladies and germs”….
now, i don’t know much about these much maligned hipsters i keep hearing about but if you ask [...]

September 6th, 2007 | Tags: | 47 comments

Images of last Friday’s Noise and Smoke

By ms_rosa

today is saturday and being saturday today is ramon’s day. his intention was to let me guest post and put up fotos of last friday’s Noise and Smoke show at Notsuoh (that’s Houston spelled backwards, hoss) and i said ‘no, no, no, today is your day’. but after a few minutes of me fussing [...]

March 17th, 2007 | 6 comments

Introducing…The Dimes

By ms_rosa

Photos by Rosa Guerrero
“Is 18 too young?” I ask Steve without context. In characteristic deadpan fashion he shoots back, “Not if you have a chaperone.”
It’s barely 10 o’clock on a recent Saturday night, the wedding reception has wound down and I’m retrieving a voicemail from The Dime’s drummer Iram Guerrero (no relation) asking if [...]

November 11th, 2006 | 5 comments