New Review!
Over at Blurt Magazine’s website, there’s a review of Friday Night’s Alejandro Escovedo show. You can read it (as well as check out an awesome photo that I took) here.
Light: On the South Side Review
As I mentioned here, I listened to and loved the Light: On the South Side compilation from The Numero Group. Now, you can read my review of it on Blurt Magazine’s website by clicking here.
Tell me what you think.
Until later.
Jason
New article!
Check out my latest article on the very excellent band Lucero in Athens, GA’s Flagpole:
Ben Nichols is tired. Half asleep and dazed from his latest cross-country trek fronting his band Lucero, his voice sounds like the archetypically scratchy rock and roll voice of a legend that has been passed down from Fogerty to Fugazi. With sleep in his eyes and a tickle in his throat that spells bad luck for anyone hoping to chat with him following tonight’s show, Nichols begins laying down the law about the hard times that come with being a band on tour.
“You pull up to a club, you sound check, you find food, and then there’s a whole lot of nothing. You can either drink yourself to death and fuck the show up or sit in the club and get really fucking lonely,” says Nichols.
I like the article, and you should too. Read it here.
More to come later, I just had to get that awful cunt’s picture off of the top of the page.
Articles
In the latest issue of Flagpole, I cover a ton of things. First up, are Drivin’ n’ Cryin’, whose lead singer Kevin Kinney had a tough go of itprior to recording the band’s latest album:
“I thought I was done. I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life,” he says. Rest only seemed to exacerbate the problem, and eventually Kinney agreed to seek medical attention. “I finally went to the doctor, and they were like ‘Jesus Christ, you know you have a huge tumor on your larynx?’ And I said ‘no.’ They told me that I should be dead, and they said that I needed to have the surgery immediately,” says Kinney.
You can read that here.
I also cover the Beards of Comedy, who don’t really have a facial hair prerequisite.
“We formed with the intention of being funny, not as much about the beards. Someone with a neck beard could be in the group if they were funny, or if one of us shaved their beard they could just be the face of the beards of comedy.” says member Joe Zimmerman.
You can read that here.
But wait, there’s more! I interview Oxford, Mississippi ukulele superstar Dent May, who loves his four stringed guitar.
The look of the ukulele as well as the stigma surrounding it lends itself to making fun sounding music,” says May.
You can read that here.
More to come later.
Pluggage
I covered The Honorary Title for the Colorado Springs Independent, and you can read that article here.
I’m also going to be co hosting the Take a Stand with Matt Mittan show tomorrow from 3 pm until 6 pm EST on 570 AM WWNC.
I’m nationwide
In a departure from my usual writing for the Mountain Xpress, I’ve published a short article for the Colorado Springs Independent about the band Mastodon. Those with astute memory of all things Bugg will remember that the same article was published by the Xpress, but do me a favor and read it again, and stand in awe at my writings about an awesome band. More to come soon, I promise.
The Nature Boy!
Want to know about Ric Flair? You can read all about it in my latest article in the Mountain Xpress.
