In Mid-August of 2006 I packed up a U-Haul trailer, hooked it up to my blue Chevy Blazer and headed south for Philadelphia. The rearview mirror was full of Portland, Gram, my family, my band and the boats & crew… Read More ›
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Loud Regardless! A Sunday Night in Philly with Paranoid Social Club.
Going in, I wasn’t sure what to expect. It was Sunday night, we’d done some casual day drinking and frankly- I just wasn’t sure how Paranoid Social Club would do playing a show upstairs at World Café Live. It’s a… Read More ›
Thunderclaps of the Truth: a review of My Morning Jacket at the Mann Center in Philadelphia (8/23/11)
Jim James rocks a duster! There is a gorilla on drums! After last night’s show at the Mann Center in Philadelphia, I’m sold- My Morning Jacket are the truth. They are the next great American rock band. For a hot… Read More ›
Where was I when the quake hit? I was here.
Where was I when the great mid-Atlantic earthquake of 2011 hit? Well sir, I was sitting at my desk, like I had been for the majority of this previously uneventful Tuesday when it felt like a rather portly person was… Read More ›
The Best Laid Plans Will Be Aided By Beer Specials…a review of Black Landlord, live at Johnny Brenda’s.
If you’re a band, I ask of you only one thing- own it. Black Landlord, a funk/hip hop band from Philly, owned it Saturday night. Kim and I caught whiff of their show at Johnny Brenda’s earlier in the evening… Read More ›
Giddy Up America 