For the past couple of years I have been experimenting with what might be considered electronic music. Utilizing beats and samples,...

It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings. I haven't seen you in a dog's age. I wasn’t born yesterday. Six in one hand, half a dozen in the...

SCOPE CREEP Christmas bonus quarterly reports cubicles and cubby holes the fine print shipping and receiving distribution logistics stock...

Her little brain is so big x2 There's no synapse it can't dig. Her signature is figuring out how to flip your wig. Her little brain is so...

I recently realized that almost every material thing I desire represents something I was forbidden to have or was otherwise unable to...

This morning’s activities were hectic as a hurricane as I jumped from one interview to the next in the Bonnaroo press compound. Things...

The blazing 2-guitar Indie Prog of White Denim’s midnight set on Bonnaroo’s That Tent stage absolutely floored Chuck and me last night....

700 acres of Manchester farmland is transformed into Tennessee’s 6th-largest city every June when 80,000 people invade the area for the...

Ric Hickey & Chris Wanstrath performing in front of Mole's Record Exchange in 2011 KEYS TO THE KINGDOM written by Ric Hickey & Chris...

I worked for my old friend Dean Newman at Mole's Record Exchange in Cincinnati, Ohio for 20 years. My employment there ended in 2012, but...

THE MAGICIAN My baby mama make the very best pancake, You can get around here, It's a family recipe That we all hold dear. In the...

THE GREATEST NEVER WAS THERE EVER WAS (gutbucket Blues in E) My stuff was the best. I never did rest. I took the cream of the crop and...

I once dreamt I was a caretaker for seven black horses. In the dream, there was a large gravel clearing behind a big house, presumably...

Low Skies “All The Love I Could Find” (2006) Like a landscape of Big Sky Montana painted with electric guitars, Low Skies conjures a...

OUTSIDER LOOKING OUT written by Ric Hickey & Paul Horton Do I belong here? Is this my home? Back where I come from I could not wait to...

The Appleseed Cast “Peregrine” (Graveface Records) Imagine Tortoise performing U2's “Unforgettable Fire” with John Bonham on drums and...

I've been a huge Phish fan since 1991. This review of a Trey Anastaio performance was written during the band's second hiatus, at a time...

Goon Moon “Licker’s Last Leg” (Ipecac) Goon Moon is the Hard Rock, Goth Pop Freaknik brainchild of Masters Of Reality main man Chris Goss...

Steven Bernstein’s Millennial Territory Orchestra “M.T.O. Volume 1" (Sunnyside) Hired in 1995 by director Robert Altman as a music...

In the final week of their existence as a live band, KISS has faced one of the biggest dramas of their half-century career. Having...