Author Archive
13 Oct 2009
Album Review: Lost in the Trees – All Alone in an Empty House
I absolutely love vinyl. And I’m no audiophile; my hearing is quite damaged from thirty-plus years of playing in bands (and seeing the Who in 1980). I dearly value the […]
12 Oct 2009
Question Mark & the Mysterians: Dissin’ and Dishin’
In April 2008 I was fortunate to score an in-depth, in-person interview with Question Mark, leader of ? and the Mysterians. I wrote a long piece based on that interview; […]
12 Oct 2009
Question Mark & the Mysterians: Is This Guy for Real?
UPDATE 2025: This piece first appeared in the Sep/Oct ’09 issue of Shindig! Magazine. It’s an account of the strangest interview I’ve ever conducted. To date I’ve written three books, […]
09 Oct 2009
Happy Birthday Sean Lennon!
Here’s one from the archives. In fall 2006 — not that long ago — I interviewed the son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono for Skope Magazine, a (now-defunct) national […]
08 Oct 2009
Album Review: The Pineapple Thief – 3000 Days
Maybe it’s something in the British water. Or, more likely, in their wonderfully full-bodied just-below-room-temperature beer. It must be said: this is pretty derivative stuff. The Pineapple Thief sounds like […]
07 Oct 2009
Album/DVD Review: Blackfield – Live in New York City
Live in New York City is the first live offering from Blackfield, the collaborative effort between England’s Steven Wilson and Israeli Aviv Geffen. With two albums in their back catalogue […]
07 Oct 2009
Sound and Vision from the Smithereens
Below is a clip containing some (grainy) still photos of the Smithereens onstage at the 2009 Charlotte Pop Fest. The audio is a portion of the song “Any Other Way” […]
06 Oct 2009
Buy This Album!
I mean it. I’m gonna keep after you until you do. Trust me: it’s great. The video below is a reasonably good sampler of what Dennis Diken‘s Late Music sounds […]
05 Oct 2009
Preview of Upcoming Posts
There’s quite a lot in the hopper right now; here’s a brief summary of items I’m working on. This is NOT a complete list… Interviews and Features: Ian Anderson of […]
02 Oct 2009
Album Review: Otis Redding – The Best: See & Hear
Shout! Factory’s newest retrospective is a CD+DVD package of Otis Redding material called The Best: See & Hear. The “hear” postion of the package is rather short, even by the […]