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Cornelius at Webster Hall

It’s not uncommon for musicians to have employed the most advanced and eccentric performative elements within their live shows these days. At this point, most of them seem owing to the psychedelic antics of The Flaming Lips, who, themselves, point their fingers unabashedly towards pre-sellout Butthole Surfers for many of the key elements involved. Overall, […]

Song of the Week - The Hits That Never Were

We’re doing Song of the Week a bit differently this time. I bet everyone has that one song in their record collection that sounds like a top 40 hit, but never really made it to the charts. We’re celebrating some of these songs this week, in hopes of kick starting everyone’s weekend with the tunes […]

Adventures With Idi Amin

A recent release about General Idi Amin, dictator of Uganda from 1971 to 1979, ex-Olympic heavyweight boxing champ and all around murderous nutcase had me thinking of an earlier documentary by Barbet Schroeder made while Amin was still in power, but before the Israeli raid on Entebee airport that was the beginning of the end […]

Nashville: City of Kings

Nashville is Music City in every sense of the term. One of the locals I met boasted that it’s the only place in the world where a bank will accept a record master as collateral for a loan.
In this town, folks in the music business are surprisingly approachable. At no point did I […]

Rusty’s Pandora Box: Blanche, Ours to Destroy and Turner Cody

Here are some new discoveries from all of my hours wandering the web.

Blanche –
You might remember Blanche from back in the White Stripes days (2004). There was quite a buzz on this Detroit band’s first album ‘If We Can’t Trust the Doctors’. All the fuss was about how husband and wife Dan and Tracee Miller […]

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