CMJ: Someday I am Going to be Inside You.
After going to SXSW for the last 10,000 years, I’ve sometimes thought about going to the CMJ Music Marathon in NYC. Since I’m usually double-booked in October, my going to CMJ is more a...
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After going to SXSW for the last 10,000 years, I’ve sometimes thought about going to the CMJ Music Marathon in NYC. Since I’m usually double-booked in October, my going to CMJ is more a...
Twin Shadow is one of the acts that I’ll totally be seeing at the Austin City Limits Music Festival, 2011
One of the things I find very curious about music is how stratified it is. If you are 20 something you listen to one kind of music. If you are older, you listen to...
On my way back to Austin from my summer adventures, I read the novel One Day by David Nicholls. I read it in pretty much one giant gulp. While I had toyed with the...
While I was sick with post SXSW-crud, I spent a lot of the time in my cough-medicine haze sucking down the 547 pages of Keith Richards very readable autobiography, Life. Nearly every publication on...
When I was in junior high school, I could have told you anything about the band Duran Duran. With crucial information gleaned from Tiger Beat and Rolling Stone, I could have explained how the...
Riga graffiti. It’s strange the impact that South By Southwest can have on our lives, in ways that sometimes go far beyond the music. View of Riga. In 2006, I did a story for...
Just days after I moved to Austin, I walked into the now-defunct Sound Exchange on the drag. It was so long ago, that Daniel Johnston hadn’t even painted what was to become the iconic...
It’s never easy getting ready for a gazillion European houseguests to stay in your small Central Austin bungalow. When your houseguests are some of the more famous people from the tiny post-Soviet county of...
Mourning Jackson on the streets of Boston, Mass. It’s the week of Michael Jackson’s funeral, and I’m waiting for the last flight out of Memphis. Everywhere in the deserted airport you can hear CNN...