I’ve got work to do tonight, but I can’t seem to find the energy. So, I’m procrastinating, watching old episodes of The Tomorrow Show, and bemoaning the fact that we don’t have good, substantive late night talk shows anymore, or, for that matter, television hosts like Tom Synder. For those of you unfamiliar with Tom, […]
I’m waiting for Clementine to fall asleep, drinking a well-deserved beer, and skipping around the internet, looking for archival footage from the early days of CBGBs. And, in the process, I happened across this segment from the 1995 PBS documentary entitled Rock and Roll. I think I saw it when it was first broadcast, but […]
I was just turned on to Reverend Louis Overstreet by Brian Turner at WFMU. According to Turner, Overstreet “made people go flippin punk rock crazy way before Iggy or 77.” And here’s video of Overstreet performing “Working On The Building Praise” to prove it. It’s some of the most beautiful stuff I’ve ever heard. Oh, […]
I’m tired, but I can’t sleep. It probably doesn’t help that I’m listening to the Ramones… I miss them.
I haven’t been terribly excited to hear anything new music-wise for a long, long time. An article in today’s New York Times, however, has me really intrigued. It seems as though Drag City Records just released a 1974 demo tape by three African-American brothers in Detroit – David, Bobby and Dannis Hackney – who, inspired […]
