Author Archive
21 May 2012
Album Review: Branden Daniel and the Chics – Keep Em Flying
When I first heard King Khan and the Shrines, I likened them to some sort of Second Coming or salvation of soulful garage rock. Or something like that. Their album […]
18 May 2012
Peter Holsapple and Chris Stamey, There and Then
After a three-decade hiatus, the original lineup of the dB’s will release a new album in June 2012. Watch this blog for an interview with Peter Holsapple and Chris Stamey, […]
17 May 2012
Another Gig From Hell: Skate-a-long USA
Everyone’s familiar with the all-purpose old saying, “I was _____ before _____ was cool.” My own true-to-life variant of that is this: I was in an 80s cover band…in the […]
16 May 2012
The Obligatory Stopgap Post
Lots else going on at Musoscribe World Headquarters today; this is (or would have been) my first business day without a new blog post in, well, years. So here’s just […]
15 May 2012
Album Review: Sweet – New York Connection
The band Sweet has a tortured, somewhat complicated history, one fraught with dizzying highs and devastating lows. The band formed in England in the late 1960s and were taken under […]
14 May 2012
Album Review: The Hollyhocks – Understories
I heart Hollyhocks. There: I’ve said it. But I realize that I have a responsibility to provide a bit more detail for you, gentle reader. So, here goes. The Hollyhocks […]
11 May 2012
Guest Blog: An Interview with Tom Gabel of Against Me!
In the interest of full disclosure, I should note that this is a feature written by my daughter Annelise Kopp, based on her 2007 interview with Tom Gabel. The feature […]
10 May 2012
Event Review: Music Video Asheville
I’ve just returned from the 5th annual Music Video Asheville event, held at Cinebarre. The organizers – music publicist and event planner Erin Scholze (a nine-year veteran organizer of Asheville’s […]
09 May 2012
It’s a Raider-palooza!
As more-than-occasional readers of this blog may have noticed, I have written pretty extensively about matters related to Paul Revere and the Raiders. For those interested, here’s a quick summary […]
09 May 2012
The Solo Raid of Mark Lindsay, Part Two
Continued from Part One… Around the time of Mark Lindsay‘s solo LPs, there were rumors that he started a solo career because he was going to leave Paul Revere and […]