Even rarer than artists making great records after 40 is those who are able to do so in quick succession. Back when I was high school, Hüsker Dü released New…
1982: I was 12 years old and listening to James Taylor.* Ouch. I could have been listening to an album that came out that year by Moebius, Plank, and Neumeier…
I saw KRS – One live a few months ago, and the musical assumptions of ageism took another body blow for sure. Aging musicians often lose the full power of…
Sometimes musicians I know tip their hand by commenting on the records they love. For years, Dennis Callaci has circled back to recommending Ornette Coleman’s 1966 album The Empty Foxhole.…
Readers of this blog may recall a trip I made with other teachers and activists from Durham to work for the release of Wildin David Guillen Acosta and Yefri Sorto-Hernandez,…
Brooklyn Vegan premiered the track Stock Up All the Prisons from our forthcoming album yesterday. You can check it out here. You can also go to my until recently private…
Universities can be weird places to see shows, musical or otherwise. The setting can make it feel like whatever creative process put forward is subject for intellectual consideration from a…
I haven’t been geeking out on software as much as I was when I started this series of posts on software ironically titled after a lyric from a Minor Threat…
(Pictured above: the parents of Yefri Sorto-Hernandez. You may find the Go Fund Me page raising funds for his bond here.) Over the last six months, I’ve been part of…
The first New Wave / Post Punk song I ever fell in love with was Cars by Gary Numan, which came out when I was in 5th grade. I used…
