Just passing along the info below. Karen ... I know you saw the show last year, now see the new and improved version! I ask you to help me promote the new...
"We're all familiar with the stereotype of the tortured artist. Salvador Dali's various disorders and Sylvia Plath's depression spring to mind. Now new...
Raul d'Gama Rose reviews: "It would be a travesty of justice to suggest—as some critics have— that there is only one stand-out track on this historic...
Over at PopMatters: "F. Scott Fitzgerald was wrong. Artists as various as Roky Erickson, Brian Wilson and Shuggie Otis prove their are second acts in American ...
"Part 2 of our video venture through lost musical geniuses discovers an unhappier tradition in The UK, where comebacks are not de rigeur! Exemplars include Joe...
Doesn't the "you say I'm cute/You don't know how much that hurts" line quoted at the end of this piece refer to Laurie... Daniel's unrequited love? The author...
The Vigilant Citizen is on the case: "The symbolism surrounding Lady Gaga is so blatant that one might wonder if it’s all a sick joke. Illuminati symbolism...
"In clubs, bars, swap meets and concert halls, from car radios and ringing cellphones, you will hear corridos, old-time folk ballads in the banda and norteño...
I too detected the hadden hand of the Illuminati at work in this. Also the Bilderberg group, the CFR, the United Nations, and the Portland Trailblazers. ... ...
"The Numero Group’s latest installment of the Wayfaring Strangers series is dedicated to the loner. More specifically, a nomadic band of male folk singers...
Album of the Day at AllMusic: "In the tradition of popular actors who can't really sing making records, Dirk Bogarde made his one and only album in 1960, at a...
"One of my favorite Rock & Roll stories is most likely apocryphal, but it still works on a visceral level. It goes like this- in the '50's, a young and already...
Yip/Jump Music, Hi, How Are You? and Welcome To My World reviewed "Pretend Everett True hasn’t been singing the praises of Daniel Johnston for 15 years....
"The Legendary Stardust Cowboy's rock primitivism made him a hero to everyone from David Bowie to the Clash to the Cramps. Can a new push to document the...
WALNUT CREEK — A Concord man who says he knew Phillip Garrido well for 15 years and met Jaycee Dugard and their two girls played a pair of CDs for the Times...
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"“I’m obsessed with him. He’s my favorite performer,” said Kurt Cobain. “No Lead Belly, no Beatles,” claimed George Harrison, and the same may as...
You have to take what Cobain said about anything with a grain of salt, of course. He'd say whatever he thought would gain him cognoscenti points, like telling...
"The great cities of Russia are still strange to Baimurat Allaberiyev, who as a younger man herded sheep in his native Tajikistan for a salary of one lamb per...
Swan Fungus writes: "Every once in a while, I happen upon something at the store that consumes me. At the beginning of this year, I came across a copy of Jerry...
Talking about catching up with a friend. I ask him to bring a vinyl record. He sais no. He didnt want to take it on the bus. Not because its fragile but the...
"In 1973, Higgins released an album of gorgeously haunting folk called Red Hash. The album could’ve made Higgins a staple in the folk scene; the music plays...
Space G gets to work on his album. He has been waiting since 1996 to get into a studio. Ten years of writing lyrics and recoding demos has lead to Fishshop...