Former Del Amitri frontman Justin Currie, along with fellow singer/songwriter/Scotsman Kevin McDermott and his brother Jim (Simple Minds), have formed the undercover guitar pop ensemble The Uncle Devil Show. Their debut album A Terrible Beauty is finely-crafted, tuneful and bitingly witty. It’s also thoroughly enjoyable, from the odd but blistering …
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I’ve been spending a little quality time lately (after all munchkins’ bedtime) with the Panic Room Special Edition DVD. It’s a 3-disc humdinger with great extras: three separate commentary tracks, one with the director David Fincher, one with the cast, and one with the writer David Koepp being interviewed by …
I saw a fantastic singer/songwriter on Thursday night at IOTA. If you haven’t bought his new album “The Unstudied Sea,” you are missing out on one of the best written efforts I’ve ever heard. If Elliott Smith and Elvis Costello performed a horrible secret genetic experiment in the bowels of …
Show tonight at IOTA… are you coming?
I’m so falling down on the job these days blog-wise. Spent a lot of time with my daughter this weekend, which was a lot of fun. We also visited my dad and his fiancee (they just announced their engagement last weekend at Evie’s third birthday party) in Georgetown, which was …
Leah and I will be performing this evening (5:00-7:00) at George Mason University. Then, to double your weekly pleasure, on Friday we’ll be at the Mudhouse in Charlottesville, VA. Strangely, I’m not even sure yet what kind of venue the GMU gig is, but if you’re in the C’ville area, …
So I find out yesterday from a friend of mine that an old bandleader of mine, Danny Blitz, was diagnosed — after a scary episode back in October — with a brain tumor. Apparently it was operable, but after excising the tumor, he had a swelling-related setback. He’s currently recuperating …
Howard Stern’s problems with the FCC stem from a number of problems in this country: 1. Our elected officials are forgetting that they are public servants and not public masters. If you’ve got 20 million people listening day-in and day-out to your supposedly offensive radio show, that’s enough people to …
Spent most of the day Saturday moving my dad out of our family house which he just sold… therefore, was slightly sore today. ? But, after a quick but refreshing shower after returning home, I had an acoustic rehearsal (of sorts) with Leah at my house, in preparation for some …
I think I’m getting old… last night I couldn’t make it more than halfway through Robert Altman’s big-city epic Nashville. I was really interested but just couldn’t keep my eyes open. I refuse to be one of those people who drinks coffee after dinner to stay awake, so it was …