I recently helped design CD packaging for the band, Generalissimo. » Read on »
My New Aluminum Baby
Electrical Guitar #334. All aluminum, hollowbody, with alumitone pickups. » Read on »
February 12, 2010 at 2:22 pm
Cartographer, Generalissimo, Ovipositor
Saturday night, bathed in the warm glow of the Hemlock Tavern. » Read on »
September 28, 2009 at 11:09 am
The Blind Shake at Thee Parkside
If you’ve run into me in the last month, you’ve heard me babbling about The Blind Shake. True to my expectations, they delivered the goods live – documentation after the jump. » Read on »
August 11, 2009 at 1:08 pm
Lester Bangs Speaks My Mind
Lester Bangs always seemed like a writer who got over his writers block by becoming a rock critic. He was smart, analytical, and funny, but his writing always seemed to veer outside of the idiom like it was a cage. I understand the thought process behind that (right: here’s what I’m supposed to do, now how can I subvert it in a vaguely topical way?), but ultimately I think that way of thinking is more about insecurity than insight. » Read on »
June 29, 2009 at 5:58 pm
May 25, 2009, at Thee Parkside
The bill was: The Moggs, Police Teeth, and Generalissimo. All bands were good. For various I-don’t-know-how-to-use-my-camera reasons, I didn’t get any photos of The Moggs, which is too bad. » Read on »
May 28, 2009 at 11:28 pm
Rock and Roll as Collage
Here we have Bongwater, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Bob Weir, and the Fabulous Pussywillows, all on one stage for a song, broadcast on National TV: » Read on »
March 24, 2009 at 5:44 pm
Bad Music for Bad People
As I’m starting this blog, Lux Interior of The Cramps has just died of a heart condition. Technically he was 63, but really he was a timeless, in a way only true originals can be. I don’t mean that his music or his band were timeless (they draw heavily on early rock’n'roll but rarely pushed past those influences), I mean Lux himself was an archetype – a raconteur – and in that he’s timeless. » Read on »
February 4, 2009 at 8:08 pm