Aside from rehearsals, recording sessions, and gigs, Lorraine Leckie & Her Demons are rarely in the same place at the same time. However on this first night of October, a photo session is scheduled at their monthly residency – the […]
Tom Semioli is a news, advertising, and public relations copy-writer, editor, blogger, bass player, and journalist – but not necessarily in that order!
Tom’s work in television, online media, journalism, advertising, and public relations encompasses automotive, business, consumer, entertainment, fashion, health, humanitarian, sports, and technology news stories and combinations thereof. His copy has been seen and heard on; ABC News, Associated Press Television Network, BBC, Bloomberg TV, CBS News, CMT, CNBC, CNN, ESPN, Fox News, MSN, NBC News, PBS, Telemundo, Thomson Reuters Television, and Univison properties, along with other outlets too numerous to list!
Among the publications Tom has written for include: All Music Guide, Amplifier Magazine, Counterpunch, Huffington Post, Ink 19, Interview, Minor 7th Magazine, MTV.Com, No Depression, Rockpile, Shout NY, Spin, VH-1.Com, and the Village Voice.
Aside from rehearsals, recording sessions, and gigs, Lorraine Leckie & Her Demons are rarely in the same place at the same time. However on this first night of October, a photo session is scheduled at their monthly residency – the […]
Aside from rehearsals, recording sessions, and gigs, Lorraine Leckie & Her Demons are rarely in the same place at the same time. However on this first night of October, a photo session is scheduled at their monthly residency – the […]
“The End!’ Well, it started as kind of a joke – the project was taking soooo long, I thought it was going to kill me! It’s called ‘The End’ – as if this is going to be the last thing […]
“A couple of people said to me that I shouldn’t write anything political – you’re gonna piss some people off. But what is the sense of writing anything if your heart is not in it? I’m not saying ‘my way’ […]
“Quite frankly it sounds f’n corny as hell …I was about eight years old, my mother brought home Abbey Road – she was a huge Beatles fan…she loved Little Richard too. And when I first heard ‘She’s So Heavy’ – […]
“Yeah,” exclaims a rather exuberant David Bragger, “old time’ is one of those lovely terms that has a different definition depending on who you talk to! And what time of day you’re talking to them!” Says Bob Dylan, an old-timer […]
He is a man of few words, but one of many ideas, and a flurry of notes! Stash Wyslouch, known to Bluegrass aficionados for his tenure in the super-group Molsky’s Mountain Drifters and The Deadly Gentlemen, is a bandleader in […]
“I admire directors who really know what they want. My most recent film, The Transcendents – with Derek Ahonen – will be out in the fall. Derek knew exactly what he wanted from me. Everything in this video for Lorraine […]
“Old time music’ was a term that was invented in the early 1920s to characterize the music and recordings of artists such as Fiddlin’ John Carson, who is considered the father of country music. I guess someone at a record […]
“You ask the average person what a bass is, or what a bass sounds like, and most of the time, they don’t know. But remove the bass from any piece of music and suddenly it becomes the largest missing piece […]
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