Happy July 4th! To celebrate, here’s a song to get your booze on. I’ve already told you about Safe Haven‘s badassitude. Here’s a video of them being badasses (and maybe a little camera shy.) Hear them be badasses here: Official,…
You’ve got to an admire a band that elevates the genre. For me, one of those band’s is Fort Collins’s Elway. I’m not punk scholar, but it would be fairly easy to see these guys as pop punk: strong melodies,…
I’ll talk about Dead Professional’s music in a moment, but first I’d like to thank him for spurring me to action. His music has been sitting in my “to write” queue for months now, but I really should have told…
I’m not sure if this story made the news outside of NYC. But a few months ago, a few tour guide companies were shut down. They existed to bring idiot tourists to the South Bronx in the early hours of…
Friends, I hope that there is a place in your town where you can go that is never a disappointment. Good food, good drink, and excellent music, any night of the week. For me, that place is Rodeo Bar in…
And now for a completely different change of pace, here’s some garage punk. Just in case you need a sandblaster to the ears. Fuzz Tonic has it all: psychobilly, surf rock, and, of course, distortion with plenty of swagger in…
The Pine Hearts are as class to indie bluegrass as it comes. Lilting, detached melodies combine with some badass fingerpicking and soulful harmonizing to create a unique sound. Where Greenland is Melting blends punk and bluegrass seamlessly, The Pine Hearts…
Geek culture is interesting. We take a form of entertainment that is seemingly cheap and disposable (say, a comic book superhero) and do what we can to make it into High Art (like, for example, an epic movie or a…