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Dawn and I were shaken out of white line fever on the Pennsylvania Turnpike when this one came rattling over the speakers, a raucous blend of Americana and garage rock, an unholy marriage of Black Oak Arkansas and Chickasaw Mudpuppies from a band incongruously generated by the Portland music scene, …

A self-recorded, self-produced, at times slightly over-the-top gem from NYC “supergroup” Cardia, consisting of Rival Schools’ Ian Love on vocals and guitar, Andy Action of 2 Skinnee J’s on drums, St. John Scott IV of Shudder to Think on guitars, and the Verve Pipe’s Brad Vanderark on bass. The action …

Al Barger wrote a very nice tribute to Joe Jackson for his 48th birthday just today. Coincidentally, Jackson’s most popular album has jsut been re-released in Deluxe Edition form. Night and Day, originally released in ’82, was Jackson’s move into nocturnal Tin Pan Alley pop and piano cocktail jazz, where …

The Specious Report strikes again with a debate between California gubernatorial candidates Arnold Schwarnenegger and Sunset Strip scenester Angelyne: It has been theorized that someone could win this election with as little as 12% of the vote. Will your campaign avoid any serious discussion of the issues as long as …

We spent most of our vacation driving to and fro in the “high country” of North Carolina from our base in Boone: cruising the beautiful but treacherous Blue Ridge Parkway (home of fog thick enough to eat for dinner), rolling on down to Asheville (where resides the 8,000 acre Biltmore …

We are back from a very varied eight-day trip, and darned happy about it as well. We went to Washington D.C. to see my oldest daughter graduate from Americorps NCCC last Thursday, and that was quite a production. We sat just below the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, looking up …

Classic off-the-wall superhero comics!

Looking back at Roxy Music's Stranded

Wow, this one is a whopper: Anxiety Records is proud to announce the fourth annual Furnace Fest at the historic Sloss Furnaces cultural park in Birmingham, AL on August 15-17. Headliners include a very special reunion performance by the influential melancholy rockers HUM. This year will also feature special performances …

Dark horse selected as RIAA’s new chairman, beginning 9/1: Mitch Bainwol, 44, former chief of staff for Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), will become chairman of the Recording Industry Association of America on Sept. 1. He succeeds Hilary Rosen, who left the job in June after six difficult years …