The horrific and heartbreaking murder of Gabby Petito is inescapable. As inescapable as men who murder. Men who murder and maim and rape and scar. I turn on the television, there is her scared and confused face in the backseat of a car with a cop talking to her who will fail to save her. […]
MoreThis is what the inside of my head sounds like on a good day. If Lou had stuck a microphone into my mind and pressed record, he could not have got it any closer. Noise. The metal machine music diatribe against beauty without context, pleasure without pain, reality versus the angels of self-destruction. The torture […]
MoreJeery Lee Lewis played a mean honky tonk piano, yes. Iconic. Wild man. Pedophile. He married his 13 year old first cousin, tried to lie that she was in fact 15, and pissed his career away indulging his perverted desires. His two other wives died in mysterious circumstances – one drowned in a swimming pool, […]
MoreThe Brooklyn Cowboy just turned 90 years old on August the 1st ’21. He is still playing shows, heading out to Big Sur, that retreat of the beats, chasing the ghosts of Guthrie, his peer and friend; and of Hunke, Ginsburg, Kerouac and Cassady, following the road, picking on down the highway. “If you pick […]
MoreCharlie was the overdriven 500 watt powerhouse of the Rolling Stones sound. Charlie had that primal beat, that jazz syncopation. Charlie had the restraint and the energy, the power and the absolute glory. The energy of his percussive forefathers ran through the sinews of his arms, and that correct and delicate hold on the drum […]
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