My friend and favorite photographer Mark Murrmann, AKA icki to most of us, has got a killer profile up from his new gig shooting for Jim Beam. All I can say is I’m really inspired and I wish Mark all the best!

Thought about it a little today after lunch. Remember last time? Here goes:
1) 13th FLOOR ELEVATORS

While the Moving Sidewalks and the rest of Texas are swimming in free mushrooms and cheap acid, you start a band unlike most anything else out there during the cultural implosion of the mid-1960’s, singlehandedly giving a kick […]

This weekend I spent a lot of time either on my bike cruising throughout the city or on the 54C bus line. The 54C is one of the few cross-town buses in Pittsburgh, and when school days roll around, you can guarantee that everyone who has to come through the Oakland neighborhood for any […]

Not exactly an informative post here, but a here’s a story from Monday that you might find interesting and that may help you with a life lesson. The lesson is: Fuck ‘em. Don’t be a wimp.
Anthony Bourdain popped into the Steel City for a lecture of sorts at the Carnegie Music Hall this […]

So the most interesting thing I found this morning happens to be this new website called Muxtape.com. Users create an account, log in, and then begin to upload mp3’s from their own personal library to form a 12-song mixtape that anyone with a browser can click and listen to. So naturally I jumped […]

“Hey… guy… AS a goof.”
Since I’ve been listening to music seriously, there have always been a few genres that I have never had the stomach for and made sure to provide snide and derisive comments towards without fail. Most of the time, I think I’m right on the money and that the Juggalos, fans […]

Who would have thought that noise music was actually good for something? Not me.

My 2007 Top Ten is here at TB.  I’m in some pretty righteous company, but I probably wrote way too much.  I’m the last one, so give it a look and tell me what you think.

* There’s stuff up on 7-Inch Slam for the first time since May of last year. Hone and I will be running the show and bringing things up to speed.
* My Top Ten of 2007 is submitted to Terminal-Boredom and when that is posted I’ll throw some additional items on as well over here […]

With my sojourn across the Midwest and South complete, I have returned to Pittsburgh renewed and refreshed. I’ve been on tour with the dumbest band in the world for the past ten or so days, and while the rock n’ roll business has confirmed all my suspicions as per its dwindling sustainability and shortsighted, […]