May 24, 2013
I don’t always fuck with spiders, but when I do, it’s because these Little Spiders Have Big Dreams in the music business. I was hanging around the Steel City Coffeehouse in Phoenixville, PA and got caught up in a groovy web of talented musicians, playing their dreams on stage. The ...
Read MoreWords and Photos by Autumn Walden It was a full house last Thursday at Yards Brewing Company in Philly as folks…ahem…came for a Beergasm—to have their senses tickled with beer, food, and music. We were treated to drinks, salad, entrees, and desserts, courtesy of the event ...
Read More“If you don’t floss your teeth on a regular basis, they’re going to fall out.”- Hawk Tubley The phrase “a little bird told me” couldn’t be more apropos—”Some Kind of Pelican” reminds us all about the importance of dental hygiene in ...
Read More“I know the plans of the master, every single day the Earth spins faster.”- Flux Capacitor, Evolutionary Are you DTF? I’m Down to Flux. I would Flux in a box. I would Flux with a fox. I was Fluxing last week at the World Cafe Live in Philly when I had a revelation—Flux ...
Read More“And I tried so often to recapture what I felt coming through my stereo.”- The Magic Math, Abracadabra The best brand of magic is the simple kind: while you gaze in wonderment, there’s a part of you that believes it is real…and that you can do it too. I experienced this ...
Read More“It’s tempting to idealize the ‘artist’ mentality here and say something sappy like, ‘If not music, then life would be a mistake’, but I’m pretty sure that I could be just as poor and happy doing pretty much anything…There’s art in ...
Read MoreIt was a Thursday night. Venus and Neptune, planets of love and magic, were aligned in the sky, and four bands descended upon the World Cafe Live in Philadelphia. Those of us who found our way downstairs to the Dirk Quinn Band‘s CD Release of Live at Home, received a full-body orgasm of ...
Read More“I consider myself to be a private individual, though I have nothing to hide…” – Edward Valenzuela aka Ed Scissorhands Are you one of those voyeuristic vampires who will continue to watch an emotional crisis unfold into a public display of shivering nakedness? Conditions ...
Read More“Of all the young lovers there are in this world, which kind of lover are you?”- John Beacher The answer to that question for me is “music lover.” Specifically, music that speaks the language of power, passion, and politics. John Beacher’s self-titled album ...
Read More“We tune because we care about your ears.” Strings were continuously twanged, tuned, and tested in between songs of the foot-stomping, bluegrass bash I attended yesterday at Snipes Farm in Morrisville, PA. I arrived in the late-afternoon to catch the Jersey Corn Pickers, ...
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