Musings

I’ve crossed over some of my “real” work and my “fun” work here before with my “I’m Your Biggest Fan”...

“Feel so restless, I am,Beat my head against a poleTry to knock some sense, Down in my bones.” Supposedly Bob Dylan...

It’s been over five years since I’ve written in this space… boy does time fly when you’re having fu….hmmm. Anyway,...

Part 1 “Being a hardcore fan” Part 2 “Music, Concerts, and Merch” Do you participate in your artist’s social networking...

Read Part 1 here. How do you consume music from your artist? What format (CD, MP3, vinyl), where do you...

Something I always try to keep in mind when writing my site is that I always wanted to capture what...

I was sitting in my room at my parent’s house in Texas writing this review at about 2am when an...

‘A picture’s worth a thousand words’. As a writer, this phrase always makes me a little sad…..but it is often...

Quite a few people have asked me what I’m going to do now that the NIN shows are over. The...

I’ve blogged about this before…and now there’s a whole new breed of mostly WTF actors trying to be singers. So...

1988: NKOTB releases Hangin’ Tough 2008: NKOTB releases The Block. Seriously. 1988: AC/DC releases Blow Up Your Radio 2008: AC/DC...

SF Weekly recently posted an article about the neo-psych/rock scene in SF. But, really, the article makes the point that...

Hannah Montana leads a double life- where she is a ‘rock star’ in one of them. Millions of preteen girls...

I was a not so sweet 16 years old. It was summer in Texas, and somehow, my parents agreed to...

Ummm…hellloooo?!?!?!? Where’s my poster? I’m paying more for tickets, dammit. Imagine my surprise when, a few weeks into living here,...

I was thinking the other day about music festivals, and how they don’t really appeal to me anymore. I thought...

With the recent release of Nirvana: Unplugged In New York, I thought about my recent live music experience with Metallica....

I ran across this great little piece today on Goth music. Enjoy.

What’s a vanity label? The vanity label was a cog in the recording industry that reached its peak in the...

I’ve had Joy Division on the brain lately– more than normal. And either I live in a Matrix-like pod and...

Tony Wilson She’s Lost Control [audio:06 Shes Lost Control.mp3] Hilly Kristal Blitzkrieg Bop [audio:092 – The Ramones – Blitzkrieg Bop.mp3]...

AFI…..the band I should like but never much got into…has some members that have a passion for new wave. So,...

Going into a record store for this first time in my life was a defining moment for me. It was...

The CD longbox is a piece of almost forgotten music nostalgia. When I got my first CD player, A 6...

In 1984, to compete with MTV, Disney created a series of cartoon videos to popular songs. I absolutely loved them....

We are at war. And that means that the USO goes into full swing to entertain our troops. While I...