Greetings from Memorial Day Weekend in Cleveland, where I saw Filter for the second time in a week, last night at the House of Blues. Friday night, found me at the resurrected Euclid Tavern for young up and comers The Suede Brothers, who are currently making lots of noise here on the Clevo scene. Here […]
Month: May 2008
Top 5: Album Openers
First of all, shucks – my longtime Cleveland pal Len over at Jawbone Radio gave this baby blog a very nice shout-out. Jawbone is a great Cleveland-based podcast that once upon a time, I was blessed enough to be on as a guest. Len is also among other things, a big Star Wars fan, which […]
Weezer debuts another classic video
The great rock band Weezer put the video for their latest ditty Pork and Beans online today. Thanks to Michael Gallucci over at Scene Magazine for hipping me to the vid! Gallucci writes: If you’re anything like us, you spend at least 65 percent of your workday watching YouTube videos. And we bet you’re gonna […]
Life on Planet Rock with Metallica
Metallica – Fight Fire with Fire (live at the Wiltern in May of 2008 w/ Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers) Former RIP Magazine editor Lonn Friend shares a great read and look back at his time spent with Metallica, chronicling the genesis of what would become “The Black Album.” Friend posted the following […]
2008 – The Rebirth of The Mix Tape
This particular entry covers a topic that is near and dear to my “child of the ’80s” heart: The lost art of making a mix tape. I’ve been meaning to write about mix tapes for a while, and had a particular angle – a whole new way in 2008 to make a mix tape of […]
The Perfect Song
Another great one courtesy of Heather over at I Am Fuel, You Are Friends. This features “the perfect song” from the perspective of Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein. Fantastic!
Quick Hits – Bruce Springsteen, Will Ferrell, Richard Marx, and more
Greetings from Rock on the Range in Columbus, OH where I watched Stone Temple Pilots return to the stage triumphantly last night. More on that in the next couple of days. For now, here are a few links that have caught my eye this week. Cleveland based Liza Bundy who I wrote about previously here, […]
Blue Rodeo + 7 Guidelines for a Better Present and Future
Seven times down Eight times up You get lost awhile And you feel like giving up Watching it all go to hell Living underneath a bad spell These are the days in between Blue Rodeo – The Days in Between download This is an archival post of sorts – taken from an old post on […]
Song of the Moment – Patti Rothberg – Alternate Universe
I gave you the heads up on Tuesday that Patti Rothberg’s latest studio effort Double Standards, was hitting the shelves. And since then, I actually got my mitts on a copy of the disc that same day, and have had a couple of days to get my head around the album. My quick review that […]
Springsteen plays another cool show + this blog gets a cool mention
First up, I’m stoked by the quick plug that this blog got at Stone Pony London, one of the main discussion boards for Springsteen fans, and also one of my favorite web surfs. While I was at SPL, I came across news of ANOTHER really cool show, to go with the really cool show that […]