Thelonious Monster and Bob Forrest fans can help fund the new documentary about his life, Bob And The Monster. Filmmaker Keirda Bahruth has spent the last six years chronicling his rise, fall, and rise. Another $1000 and her project covers costs of music rights, archival clearances, sound mix, and Bob’s fleet of limo Priuses. He’s […]
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Like California, Los Angeles has been rebuked and scorned in book, film, song, musical, vaudeville, pretty much every medium dating back to protozoan wall art. It’s easy to hate LA. I don’t have much of a problem with the city, beyond traffic, but the entertainment-industrial complex is a whoremaker chewing up everything in its […]
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Li’l Cap’n Travis – Teenage Mustache > James Gang – Walk Away “Braces and a teenage mustache Sit beside me in my Mustang We can listen to the James Gang Turn your pretty head and walk away” We’ll get to the James Gang in a second, but first some love for Austin’s Li’l Cap’n […]
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In 1990, Soul Asylum released my favorite album in their catalog, And The Horse They Rode In On. The band was in their prime, the songwriting was concise, clever, and perceptive, and they destroyed live. I feel lucky that I got to see them twice that year. The first time was in November at […]
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“(Sam) Cooke had an enormous natural talent — but he mined a narrow vein, one in which restraint was prized over embellishment. So Cooke sang direct and clean lines, never pushing or straining his voice, always perfectly in time and tone with thoughtfully arranged instrumentals. No flailing, cathartic vocal runs, no bursts of horns, just […]
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