A gang of friends got together recently to create the gorgeous new music video for the Matt Ellis “River Too Wide” track off of his excellent Births, Deaths, and Marriages album. It was shot – all night long – in […]
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A gang of friends got together recently to create the gorgeous new music video for the Matt Ellis “River Too Wide” track off of his excellent Births, Deaths, and Marriages album. It was shot – all night long – in […]
Very exciting music week last week, for sure. Topped off by the complete joy that is seeing Mr. Kris Kristofferson play live. If you’ve been introduced to me, you already know that he is my favorite. Always has been. So […]
A little bit of Venice split for Tucson over Labor Day weekend, and it was a (furnace) blast! I jumped in the van with Matt Ellis and his band and headed out into the desert, bound for Tucson’s Hoco Fest […]
Tom Morello‘s 4th studio album as The Nightwatchman has just been released, and World Wide Rebel Songs (New West Records) is both loud, Son, AND heavy as shit, to paraphrase his earlier “Maximum Firepower” tune. There’s still the acoustic guitar […]
Tom Freund has been a part of my Venice for as long as I can remember. His latest album, The Edge Of Venice, gave us a good excuse to sit down and talk about our Venice, and his music that […]
There is nothing I will be ever be able to write cooler than this, now, but maybe ever. If you know me, you know I love Leonard Cohen. LOVE Leonard Cohen. So imagine my damn struck dumb surprise when I […]
Few people inspire me in such a profound way as my good friend, The Nightwatchman – the alter ego of guitar hero, Tom Morello. That’s not because he’s a big rock star or even that he does rip that guitar […]
Do you know who Leo Kottke is? I’m always amazed at how many people don’t. He is perhaps the best 12 string guitar player in the world, and an absolute icon to my brother and I. We LOVE him. We […]
Do you know who Leo Kottke is? I’m always amazed at how many people don’t. He is perhaps the best 12 string guitar player in the world, and an absolute icon to my brother and I. We LOVE him. We […]
Sunday night found us trekking over to Hollywood to see the beyond sold-out Fistful Of Mercy show at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery’s Masonic Lodge. We parked among the grave sites and walked in the moonlight to join the extra-loooooong line […]
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