Underwater DJ at Hatch Gallery during tonight’s Art Murmur in Oakland. Don’t ask me what spinning your records in a puddle does for you–other than…
Something was different as I left The Independent on Wednesday after seeing Toronto folk-rock band Great Lake Swimmers. It took me a little while to…
On the menu tonight: Chill, Canadian folk-rock.
Perhaps no band’s lyrics better lend themselves to pseudo-academic analysis than those of The Decemberists. The Annotated Decemberists is an attempt to puzzle through the Portland, Oregon,…
These are the posts where I gush about some song that I’ve got a huge crush on at the moment, and you put up with…
Golly. I haven’t seen so many flying skirts since the aviatrix convention! *rim shot* Hey-o! But seriously, folks, this Sunday event was more than a…
This is the jump-bluesy, western-swingy Reno band Golden West Trio with Miss Kay Marie, part of a celebration of American roots music from the ’30s…
Two songs enter. One song leaves. Well, OK, both leave. It’s not like we erase all traces of the losing song from the Internet, but…
These are the posts where I gush about some song that I’ve got a huge crush on at the moment, and you put up with…
Let’s see if you can identify the song it references. To answer your next question–“What, is this blog a webcomic now?”: Yes, apparently it is.…