It was with some sadness that I finished reading Richard Brody’s newish Jean Luc Godard biography, Everything is Cinema, last night. Sadness because I was enjoying it so much, because it was a reminder of […]

Insomnia’s back, but the good news is I caught the last hour or so of Apocalypse Now on TCM at around 3 a.m. What a corny damn movie. I mean, I love it, that movie […]

So my girlfriend had to babysit for a couple going to the Tom waits show in Knoxville, so we went to the Atlanta show instead. It was at the always impressive Fox Theatre, and was […]

Saw the Brothers Unconnected Sun City Girls tribute (Alan and Richard Bishop paying homage to the deceased Chalres Gocher) at Barking Legs theater in Chattanooga last Saturday. I’d call myself a moderate SCG fan, owning […]

We didn’t get to Terrastock until Friday afternoon, so the first act we saw was Sleeping Pill, comprised of Georgia and Ira. The less said about it that the better. We somehow missed Tanakh […]

After hearing all the fuss and hype surrounding Bonnaroo (thank you, Kanye) that inevitably invades this town every year at this time, it was nice to head up to Louisville, KY for the Terrastock 7, […]

…why more and more album covers look like this? (props to U.S. Maple for being ahead of the curve.)

Some dipshit(s) waltzed into the Birdhouse and stole their P.A. last week, along with an assortment of other items. As you know, the nonprofit Birdhouse operates on a minuscule budget, and though the P.A. was […]

I found Malcolm Holcombe and Sam Milner’s 1985 album Trademark at Jay Nations’ record cubby-hole inside the Book Eddy last week. I had no idea Malcolm had recorded an album that long ago, and man […]

Melted Men came correct last Thursday at Pilot Light. Not quite as bizzaro as their first trip through, they still managed to confuse, amuse and abuse the crowd that had assembled. Beginning with five minutes […]