This week in Live Music: August 5-11
Before we get into this week’s live tuneage, let’s dwell for a moment on last week’s live shows. Big shout out to the list members (and friends of list members) who came to the Eric…
Musical musings from aging hipsters
Before we get into this week’s live tuneage, let’s dwell for a moment on last week’s live shows. Big shout out to the list members (and friends of list members) who came to the Eric…
Barb Abney spent more than a decade at 97X and woxy.com, starting in the summer of 1994 and doing middays from 1998 through 2006, when she moved to Minneapolis to work for The Current for…
Continue Reading Episode 18: Barb Abney the Modern Rock maven
Eric Bachmann played a house concert at my place last night. The crowd can best be described as “small but mighty”…. about 20 folks. But those few and proud folks were treated to a fantastic…
I’m listing the concerts out of order this week. Because the most important gig is on Thursday: Eric Bachmann is playing a house concert at my home. 26 tickets left? Geez, that’s sad. Clearly, I’ve…
In the second part of our chat with Dan Reed (a.k.a. “Danny Crash”), he tells more hilarious stories from the early 97X years, including tales about his band Chem-Dyne, his friends Mr. K and Greg…
Howdee! Let’s get right to the tunes, because we also have a lot of non-concert ground to cover. Monday, Amigo the Devil is at Southgate, with Cory Branan. And for all the phloppy Phish dancers,…
Dan “Danny Crash” Reed is the self-described “Forrest Gump” of the music business. A proud native of Hamilton, Ohio and eventual grad of Ohio University, he was a young DJ at 97X when it changed…
Continue Reading Episode 16: Danny Crash crashes the Party Patio
Below is a blog post from another blog of mine (nobody reads that one either) that originally appeared in November of 2017. I’m posting after hearing the news that Johnny Clegg passed away. Johnny B.…
The 7/10 edition of CityBeat features a great cover story by Brian Baker about Chuck Cleaver, of Wussy and Ass Ponys fame. Chuck’s a brilliant songwriter, and a heck of a singer. (As he says…
Hot enough for ya? Speaking of hot, let’s get to the hot, hot, live music action. Ain’t nothin’ going on Monday… but Tuesday more than makes up for that. Sebadoh is playing Woodward Theater, with…