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  • Why It Matters to Eye Empire’s Donald Carpenter

    This is one of the coolest “why it matters” interviews I’ve done, because “it” in this case means fatherhood.  Carpenter’s band will be appearing at the Aftershock Festival on the weekend of September 14. You can read the full interview here.

  • More Rock Briscoe!

    Mike Dorman has finished the next installment in the Rock Briscoe saga. It’s hotter than a really hot thing that’s hot because of the heat.

  • 142. If There is Music We Can Use It

    Some of us in the MTV generation had to settle for ABC’s Friday Night Videos.  Well into college I could still be found in front of the television most Friday nights, watching the few videos available to me.

  • GMP Writing Prompts for Week of 9/2/13

    I’m looking for your take on the following for GMP’s arts and entertainment section.  Pieces should be between 500 and 1,500 words and conform to the Good Men Project Style Guidelines. I’m open to your pitches on any arts and entertainment topic, too.  Please forward your stories to me at jostaffordjr@gmail.com.

  • From the Stacks: Molly Hatchet – Flirtin’ With Disaster

    Molly Hatchet’s second (and best) album, Flirtin’ With Disaster, features another painting by the great Frank Frazetta.

  • From the Stacks: Love Tractor – This Ain’t No Outerspace Ship

    This was the one that was supposed to break Athens, Georgia’s Love Tractor nationally.  Things didn’t work out that way, but it’s still a great album.

  • Meet the New Arts and Entertainment Editor

    I was looking at my calendar, and I noticed that I have almost three full minutes free on alternate Tuesdays.  Idle hands are the Devil’s workshop and all that stuff, so my new friends at The Good Men Project online magazine suggested I try on an editor hat.

  • George Duke, 1946-2013

    We lost keyboard legend George Duke to leukemia on August 5, 2013, age 67. “Legend” is not hyperbole here.  The guy was a beautiful singer and a wonderful player, and he always looked like he was having so much fun on stage.  Duke played with the best of the best, including Frank Zappa, Miles Davis,…

  • Deep Cuts: Safe and Normal

    Only a nineteen-year-old man would bristle at being called “safe and normal.”  At that age a guy looks in the mirror and sees “Wild One” Brando reflected back with no idea that road leads to muumuus and braids. Rock and roll doesn’t help. Safe and normal guys are often the objects of mockery in music,…

  • A Case Of Misplaced Charity

    Is every homeless person looking for a handout?  Hardly.  In this week’s Good Men Project piece I visit my local pizza place and accidentally make an ass of myself.  Enjoy.