Blogs
What I’m Listening to Today
To make OffBeat‘s “Pop Life” more of a dialogue, I’ve temporarily moved it to this site. It’s also easier to write more regularly and spontaneously, more accurately reflecting how and […]
Wilco at Tipitina’s
Tuesday night’s show was typical Wilco; by now I’m not sure there’s much left to say beyond a few beautiful Nels Cline solos that recalled Tom Verlaine with Television. I […]
Hillary on the Daily Show
Hillary Clinton’s appearance on The Daily Show could only have gone worse if there had been an on-screen breakout of the Ebola virus. Let’s count the ways: 1. The fish-eye lens […]
An Interim Solution
I’ve wanted “Pop Life,” my weekly online column at OffBeat.com to be a blog so that it can function as a conversation instead of a pronouncement. Since changes to our […]
A World of Pure Imagination
It’s Saturday morning. This isn’t a time for live music. For some musicians, it’s time to go to bed. If you’re the Imagination Movers, this is a fine time for […]
Little Hercules, Little Hercules (Independent)
I’ll trust Leo Nocentelli and June Yamagishi. If they’ll record with Boulder, Colorado’s Little Hercules, then the band’s good enough for me. If the band loves New Orleans as much […]
St. Rock: The Name Game
St. Rock: The Name Game
Amerigo: The Music for the Furniture (Independent)
The Accidental Darlings—formerly the Violet Era—have two things really going for them: 1) Misty Belmonte has good rock star presence on record and on stage, and 2) you never go wrong with Led Zeppelin as an influence. Belmonte rages and wails on a cinematic scale, as if she’s working out the psychic hoodoo that accompanies watching her family chainsawed into Alpo.
Juke (Box) Joints
One night I saw two lawyers in lust trying to read the road map to their forbidden desires. The red wine out of the bar’s single-serving screwtop bottles was […]
Mahayla Takes Small Steps
Mahayla’s cover of the Beach Boys’ “You Still Believe In Me” is telling. Singer/songwriter Dave Fera shares a fragile, young quality in his voice and lyrics with Brian Wilson. His […]
