1: Hot Guts at Pilam, October 2008. 2: Awesome Color. Both images © MTS
I know this is my proverbial bed and I have to lie in it, but goddamn, having a life outside of school is next to impossible. I did catch Awesome Color at Pilam Thursday night, as well as the “secret” Dead Milkmen [...]

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Ever since I became a voter in PA, I have to say I am a little bummed that my polling place [...]

While I appear to be in the small, small camp that enjoys most, if not all, of Chris Leo’s creative output, this performance of [what I argue to be one of] the Greatest Songs Written By A New Jersey Band In The Past Fifteen-ish Years fits the clingy, damp sensations of today.
Because it’s that kind [...]

After waiting for what seemed like a jillion hours (but was actually 3.5), CaUSE Co-MOTION! and Meneguar took the stage at Terrace F. Club in Princeton. Somehow, this late evening managed to set off a chain reaction of one late night after another, but not in a good or fun way.
ETA: Hello dere. Perhaps you [...]

No, really: yours truly at the Spice Girls concert in Newark, NJ. (Photo: JGH)
I’ve seen so many shows lately — No Age, Spice Girls, Julienne Baird, Clockcleaner, Home Blitz, Lame Drivers, Gang, Robyn, The Apes, Br’er, Blood on the Wall, CaUSE Co-MOTION!, Make A Rising, etc – that I feel like I’m in my own [...]

Saturday I traveled to D.C. to interview Marc Masters for my new program, and took in the release party for No Wave. The bands were great (Dark Sea Dream, Vapour Theories & Kohoutek), as well as the DJ — Mark C of Live Skull, who brought every no wave release in existence, and them some [...]

Tally ho! Progress! And all that. Today I picked up my new audio equipment and soon enough, you’ll be able to hear Her Jazz in addition to reading it. Actually, my newfangled technological goodness is for a new series I am producing for WPRB. (But I can’t resist putting up some outtakes [and other odds'n'ends] [...]

This event is a lot of fun — it’s like our own Zaireeka (kindofbutnotreally) and right up there with strange community ritual performances like the Mermaid Parade, Running of the Santas, and so on. So, don’t miss out. It’s BYOBB (Bring Your Own Boom Box), but I think they’ll have a couple loaners in case [...]

Redd Kross at the Santa Monica Pier, 1982. Love that quick shot of the girl’s face after a particularly loud shot of feedback.

Chunklet on what’s probably the first public appearance of long standing comedic favorite, Philly Boy Roy.