Blog: Confessions of a Would-Be Hipster

I'm gonna try to make this one short and sweet. I went to a rock show at the Echo Friday night. And it rocked. Wounded Lion open. Never have I been quite so blown away by an unknown opener. Lead singer is a 40-year-old with a cop 'stache. Keyboardist is a pudgy, speccy Asian dude who probably worked with my engineer father on the stealth bomber. Musical instruments are shared by all and switched often. There's a couple of young geeky kids in the back somewhere. They're doing garage post-punk music about constellations and physics [...]