Guns N’ Roses wasn’t the first band that I got completely wrong; in fact, I have quite a history of missing the bus early on. Here are a few of the many […]
Deep Cuts: Artists I Was Completely Wrong About
Deep Cuts: New York
New York looms large in the American imagination, especially for creative types. That’s where it all happens: The Chelsea Hotel, The Cafe Wha?, SoHo, Greenwich Village. Brooklyn kids. Warriors, come out to […]
Deep Cuts: Boxing Songs
“Stay after him, Jim, you got home in the ropes” was a great punchline, but it was no accident: My grandfather and I shared a fondness for boxing. During one of his […]
Patti Smith At The Mondavi Center, 05/08/12
The vineyard is just to the right once I exit the freeway. I see a jack rabbit with impossibly long ears milling about, but by the time I park the Mobile Music […]
14. What Time Is It?
The deeper I get into this little exercise the more I recognize that there aren’t distinct epochs inherent to one’s own musical soundtrack. The development of musical taste isn’t a linear continuum where […]
