I was flipping through last week’s Dig (mostly on Ezra’s recommendation some time ago; I’d never actually picked it up before) on the train this evening, and I saw a record review of the latest album by Dopo Yume. “Dopo Yume, Dopo Yume . . . now I know it’s not Urusei Yatsura, right? Why […]

This isn’t exactly breaking news, but it did my disillusioned heart good to read about indie rockers saying No to Hummer’s filthy lucre:
GM’s brand of luxury SUVs may be one of the most fashionable modes of transportation in the world, but Hummer ad money is turned down like … well … like nothing else. That’s […]

I know I haven’t posted anything about the amazingly rad show we saw Valentine’s evening by the Undertow Orchestra (David Bazan, Mark Eitzel, Vic Chesnutt, Will Johnson, and a very talented guy on keyboards and violin who I swear looked like Dan Pussey from where we were sitting), but that’s mainly because I did something […]

Why has no one told me how great this band is? Why couldn’t I have paid attention when I saw them written up in various local news organs? Because I’m a little (lot) slow on the uptake, it would seem. Thanks to mah honeh, I’ve been listening nonstop to 2004’s Memories Fade, 2002’s The Good […]

At least, so says Dial-the-Truth ministries. Oy.
Rock Music - Premature Death of Rock Stars
Perusing their site reminds me all too much of a faith-healing sect that was prominent in the county where I grew up, the Faith Assembly, better known as the Glory Barn. One of my elementary school classmates, Bunny, had the misfortune to […]