John Stabb Update: Benefit Set for Sept. 23rd

(Photo swiped from Washington City Paper.)
As previously reported here, John Staab of Government Issue was assaulted on July 17, sustaining three facial fractures, two broken bones, and a broken nose (read the City Paper’s story here).
A benefit has been set for Sunday, September 23rd in D.C., at the Rock and Roll Hotel (yeah it’s a [...]

Fear Falls Burning, I’m One of Those Monsters Numb with Grace (Equation) LP

The following review appeared in the latest edition of Doug Mosurak’s Still Single column at Dusted Magazine:
Before I even sliced open the shrink-wrap with my thumbnail, the name of this one-man-electrical-line6-jam-band and its nausea-inducing title had me wincing. Like then I saw that the dude is Belgian and all, and no offense to our friends [...]

Some Old Fliers from Old Times

Nick Hennies, one of my oldest Louisville friends and a member of the Weird Weeds (and former member of Telephone Man and Nero), recently unearthed some old fliers, some of which I “designed,” so I thought I’d share them with you, all two of my readers. The one above was, as you can see, for [...]

Weekend of Public Humiliation (For Some, Not Me)

Blues Control with Brian Turner at the Rock Star Bar for Mark’s birthday party, 8/11/07

Isn’t “Most Hated Band in Philadelphia” something like “Most Useless Celeb in L.A.?” Clockcleaner’s John Sharkey III gets wild on the mic, something Kidd Chris would most certainly approve of.

The strobe lights make it hard to take a crappy cellphone shot, [...]

Paul Rutherford, R.I.P.

(Photos of Paul Rutherford and Iskra 1903 swiped from http://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/mrutherf.html, which contains a discography and short biography.)
More bad music news, this time from the world of British free improvisation as Paul Rutherford, trombonist and founding member of Iskra 1903, has apparently passed on. Rutherford also played in the Globe Unity Orchestra and the London Jazz [...]

Lee Hazlewood, R.I.P.

His Myspace page is reporting that Lee Hazlewood passed on August 4, 2007 from cancer.
He will be greatly missed.
Update: As a tribute of sorts, I’ve uploaded Hazlewood’s 1963 solo debut Trouble Is A Lonesome Town, which you can download here. Enjoy.
Update 8/9/07: My roommate Joe has added an interview with Lee Hazlewood from his [...]

Recidivist, ep. 2: Codeine

(Codeine promo photo and other images swiped from http://pry.com/codeine)
I doubt they were the first band I “connected” with in the figurative sense — after all I’ve been nuts about music as long as I can remember. Yet I first heard Codeine at a pretty important time, when I was a teenager in Louisville, Kentucky, and [...]