The Adios Lounge was shaken to its core this week when a pair of legendary rock ‘n’ roll sidemen passed away. I’ll offer more thorough rememberances at a later date, but I wanted to get this out there given the importance of these two musicians to my life. On Tuesday, news came through that […]
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Link to One For The Road video & annotated setlist below Back on July 4th, I annotated The Kinks‘ BBC-TV appearance from January 24, 1973. (Check out God Save Donald Duck, Vaudeville and Variety.) That show bookended the band’s golden age that I’d say began with the transcendent “Waterloo Sunset” single (released May 1967) and […]
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Just in time for Christmas, The Adios Lounge has produced a new batch of T-shirts expressly for its thousands of female fans. WOO HOO!!! We’ve gone retro, with the original AL logo on super-soft American Apparel shirts. Two colors are available, yellow (above) and teal (below), and two sizes, women’s M and L. […]
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There was no turning back. We’d find new members and make the band better than ever. Bingham left and I stayed up all night writing “At Midnight.” A year later we would be in the studio recording How We Handle Our Midnights and the second life of the band would begin. –Joey Kneiser Next week, […]
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Last week, my buddy Brandon Gentry had this feature published in Washington City Paper: Margin Walkers: A Quarter-Century After Fugazi Reintroduced the World to DC Punk, 13 Takes on 13 Songs. “13 Takes” refers to the fact that Brandon spoke with 13 different people about 13 Songs, Fugazi’s debut CD (1989). In fact, 13 […]
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