I started listening to this guy and his band in 1970. They were doing stuff that was magic to my ears, and it still is. I never tire of it and if it is some show that I have never…
He’s a Man Way Beyond Description: We Miss You, Jerry!
Category: Show Reviews
Stop Making Sense: Blu-ray Edition
Stop Making Sense: Blu-ray Edition | Director Jonathan Demme | Score: 7.9 Music famously fixes you in time and place; a song you heard incessantly twenty years ago will always bring you back to that moment, the people you were…
Jackie Green, an All Round Musician, Singer, and Songwriter
There is an unbelievable amount of music out there, and there are a lot of talented musicians making music. The word musician is typically a “catch all” word used to describe someone that “makes music”. A good musician is usually…
Steve Kimock, Guitar Player Extraordinaire
Guitar music, I love it, I have 2 guitars myself, I hardly ever play and when I do I play, it sounds as though I hardly ever play. Like anything else, if you want to be good at something, you need…
Sal Cannestra’s Sound Choices for Best New Music – 2011
Every year I wonder if my tastes (musical and otherwise) are getting just a little narrower, a little less open to the new and the strange. I look at this list and can say yeah, these are all guitar rock…
Music/CD Review: Hair Rocket’s New One, Punishment Cookie
A walk through Punishment Cookie: Like riding a bathtub through Space Mountain after a fight with your girlfriend. The openings of Eyes, the first track, are a water park in outer space, soaking with reverb the sound splashes all around…
This Sunday, At Kung Fu Necktie: Three Bands on a Single Billing, Including The Thirteen!?
Hey Guys, If yer getting this you probably showed some interest in the Pete Donnelly house concert Marilyn and I hosted a few weeks ago. I am writing again to let you know about another great show coming up –…
In Theatres, Wednesday April 20th: Good Evening, Ladies & Gentlemen, The Grateful Dead Movie! Enjoy!
Once upon a time, there was a movie, about a band that was beyond description. People flocked from far and near to see this band and see what they would hear. The band was The Gratful Dead and they still…
Dallas Vietty: A Wonderful Guy, Accordion Like You’ve Never Heard Before, in Philly & Lambertville NJ
I won the Free Bass (a type of classical accordion) category at the festival over the weekend!!! You can see a video I took playing one of my competition pieces. The Kimmel Center is organizing a Parisian themed arts festival all…
Morphine: A Poem at a Concert
Your Subconscious A head full of now Two shoes full of wow I know that song A bouncing ball She ripped the wings right off my back She ran her fingers up and down the track She said, your no…