• Bruce Springsteen

    You Can Look (and you better listen up)

    Oh my…. I’m just about speechless and hopelessly stuck in anticipation of seeing Bruce and the band live after hearing this version of “You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)” from the other night in Asbury Park. Oh my…..…

  • Folk

    Boss Alert: New Tune

    There’s a new Bruce / Seeger Sessions Band tune up on the Boss’ site taken from recent tour rehearsals in Asbury Park – “straight off the soundboard”. They have it streaming in Real, Quicktime, and WMA right now. Here’s a…

  • Laid Back,  Miscellaneous,  Pop

    Book em Danno

    Here is an absolutely bizarre post I found on Boing Boing… wow, wonderful use of the University of Colorado’s law enforcement agency…. damn pot smokers! Doug says: “Every year on 4/20, students and residents gather on Farrand Field at CU…

  • Rock,  Video

    Marah Can’t Hardly Wait

    My man Zach from Milwaukee has delivered yet again with a great live Marah video (see his previous offering). Recorded live at the Abbey Pub in Chicago, IL on February 17th of this year, here is Marah performing a Replacements…

  • Rock

    Marah and Steve Earle play the TLA

    One of the best concert weeks of my life was seeing Steve Earle play the West Hollywood House of Blues in the summer of 2000 with Marah as their opening act. A week later, I saw Marah at the small,…

  • Punk,  Rock

    The Clash hit France

    There are a few recurring themes on this site that I unapologetically hammer at the masses. There’s Prince, there’s Springsteen, and there is Joe Strummer & The Clash. I came across a cool bootleg recently of what I guess would…

  • Folk

    Bruce Live on GMA

    There was no better way to start off the last day of my vacation this morning than by watching the Boss and his Seeger Sessions Band perform “Jacob’s Ladder” on Good Morning America. I was seriously moved as Bruce and…

  • Funk,  Prince

    Prince and Morris rock First Avenue

    Here’s a cool snapshot of Prince’s Minneapolis scene before he struck it big with ‘1999’, and BIG BIG with ‘Purple Rain’. The date is March 8th, 1982. Location: the Minneapolis club First Avenue, which Prince made famous two years later…

  • Pop

    Sunday Morning on a Saturday

    I have to say, it’s good to hear Susanna Hoffs’ voice again. As lead singer of the Bangles until they disbanded in 1989, I had a big crush on her, watching her belt out “Walk Like an Egyptian” and Prince-penned…

  • Acoustic,  Laid Back

    Welcome to my World

    Well, it’s been a good week. My second daughter was born into this world yesterday morning, right into my waiting hands. Words can’t describe it, my friends. The miracle of birth makes skeptics like me into believers. I only wish…