Last Week Was Intense
I don’t know about you, but last week was very, very intense for me, even though it was a short week. Our dog, Mr. Spanky, turned out not to have had a bad tooth,...
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I don’t know about you, but last week was very, very intense for me, even though it was a short week. Our dog, Mr. Spanky, turned out not to have had a bad tooth,...
As many of my readers know, traffic is the metric that matters on the Internet. Not just likes and favorites, but the sheer number of eyeballs crossing your content. It’s the new world, like...
It’s nice to see a festival that I worked the guest list for several years in row get bigger and bigger! I’m VERY pleased about much of the 2014 Fun Fun Fun Fest lineup...
Back when I was in elementary school, we were in a unit learning about the tumultuous events of the 1960s, which included everything from Vietnam to the Civil Rights movement. It was going slowly....
At the very end of the 2014 Austin Psych Fest, I wandered over to the main exit. There I saw Thomas from Virginia, who was traveling around. He’d made these awesome screenprints for Austin...
Austin Psych Fest was fab and dusty and thought-provoking. Lots of bands happened. Here are some pictures from the event. If you want to see more pictures, there is a set on Flickr. Update: Austin...
Like a lot of people at Austin Psych Fest, I was totally blown away by the Sunday night show by Japanese/British band Bo Ningen. I heard all sorts of people at the festival talking...
Through little advance planning–and a tipoff from a European music industry pal–I managed to catch Temples TWICE during South By Southwest 2014. I’m super-excited to be seeing them again at Austin Psych Fest! Their...
Austin based band The Black Angels is curating Austin Psych Fest. It’s a hometown crowd, it’s their very own festival and it’s certainly an appreciative audience for their brand of psychedelic rock! Based on...
I caught the London-based Japanese-born act Bo Ningen at SXSW this year. I was at the “British Music Lounge” waiting for buzz-band Temples (who are also on the Psych Fest lineup this year), when...