by Ben Greenman Phil Ochs was born five months before Bob Dylan and died sixteen months before Elvis Presley, and that tells you all you need to know about him, and that tells you nothing. Ochs was an earnest activist, and a rebel, and a satirist, and a town crier, and a crack-up. He built and dismantled personae with such rapidity that it's sometimes difficult to find the real person who, in theory, provided the foundation on which those personae were built and dismantled. Born in Texas, raised in Ohio, gifted musically and culturally omnivorous, [...]
If you thought last week was slim pickins' then get a load of this week. Actually don't, just chill out till next year. Unless you want to buy that Rush DVD and burn it and send me the video... I will totally post it and send you something cool in return. Like a print of Win Butler's I took from underneath his crotch , how does that grab you? Common: The Dreamer, The Believer Conan O'Brien and the Legally Prohibited Band: [...]
When you talk about the venues that played a pivotal role in shaping New York City's rock scene, certain ones come to mind immediately. The Fillmore East, CBGB's and The Wetlands all left their mark, with both those that played gigs there, as well as those that frequented them, some almost on a nightly basis. Seemingly overlooked in this discussion was the importance of the Cafe au Go Go , a tiny club, with notoriously bad sight lines, located in the basement of 152 Bleecker Street, which from the period of 1964 to 1969 hosted every important and influential rock, folk, blues, jazz [...]
The Goldberg Sisters is the new musical project from Adam Goldberg, the always entertaining actor/filmmaker whose impressive resume includes the likes of Saving Private Ryan, Dazed And Confused, Friends, Entourage, Zodiac, 2 Days In Paris and the Flaming Lips' Christmas On Mars. The band's 10-track, self-titled album (on Apology Music/Play It Again Sam) follows Goldberg's 2009 musical [...]
As a warning, this post is going to contain language that many readers will find obscene. That being said, it seems my rant last week on those that harbor ill will towards words - be they on the right or left - touched a nerve with some. Others felt strongly on the opposite end, also. It's a funny thing, language. It brings out the best and worst in people, but only if they allow it to hold control over them. It's why I've always felt strongly about the [...]
Lenny Bruce (October 13, 1925 - August 3, 1966) Allow me a break from the normal music discussions to recognize this day. On this day 43 years ago, Lenny Bruce took one trip too many. Morphine overdose. Broke and in debt, paranoid and overweight. 40 years old. I am not gonna go into a big drawn out synopsis of his life here. Anyone on this site also has access to Wikipedia, and those folks have already gone through all of the effort for me. If you are not familiar with Lenny or his material, [...]
If you picked up The Pitch or looked online, you may have caught this week's review of Wichita-born, Austin-based rapper Black Nasty's latest, Shark Tank. And if you did, you probably saw that amazing... Continue reading "Local artist Jay Norton is as nasty as he wanna be" >
Influential comedian Lenny Bruce is the subject of a panel discussion featuring Stand Up! Records' Dan Schlissel.
Filed under: Around the World As the primary songwriter for the New York band Golem , Annette Ezekiel had been chronicling the stories of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants to the U.S. Then she married one. With that, the now Annette Ezekiel Kogan's frame of reference has changed a bit for the band's new album, ' Citizen Boris .' "It definitely takes all the stuff I'd been doing and makes it a million times more real," says the lively singer-songwriter. "Of course, I'm learning things I didn't know [...]
Kara's just back from voting. A registered Democrat she originally wanted to vote for Dennis Kucinich in the primaries but his campaign didn't reach New York so instead she opted for Clinton over Obama. What was a political 0/2* now looks like 1/3 as, but for real life imitating art , it looks Barack Obama will be the next President of the United States. No four hour queues, no problem with whether or not she'd be allowed to vote. In and out from the local school/polling station in the time it [...]
[There are 21 MP3s contained in this post] Call me crazy, but in 2005, I compiled a bunch of whacked out tunes for my WFMU marathon premium. Back then, the disc, Loony Tunes , was given out exclusively to pledgers to my show Give the Drummer Some , but now, invoking the insanity clause, I'm making the whole shebang available here. Posted below are the original liner notes, MP3s of (most of) the tracks, and quotes uttered by each manic maestro. Go nuts! [...]
bay area yuksters, today, according to recent tradition and this website , is comedy day in san francisco. 30 stand-up comics and a few assorted musical guests will perform - for free, and that's no joke - in golden gate park beginning at noon and running till around 5pm or so. you can find the lineup of performers and the schedule of acts here ; there are four "special guests" - unannounced performers (robin williams, perhaps?) lined up for the last slot of the day. it looks like a brilliant day out on the western end of the [...]
Lenny Bruce (October 13, 1925 – August 3, 1966) Allow me a break from the normal music discussions to recognize this day. On this day 41 years ago, Lenny Bruce took one trip too many. Morphine overdose. Broke and in debt, paranoid and overweight. 40 years old. I am not gonna go into a big drawn out synopsis of his life here. Anyone on this site also has access to Wikipedia, and those folks have already gone through all of the effort for me. If you are not familiar with Lenny or [...]
Here are some clips from 10 great comedians. Not the best of all time but pretty close.. 1. Patton Oswalt - Dukes of Hazzard . 2. David Cross - The Pantry (bad recording but very funny. takes a second to get going) 3. Bill Hicks - Great time on Drugs 4. Eugene Mirman - Anti Gay Phone Company 2 . 5. Demetri Martin - Personal Information Waltz 6. [...]
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