Human slave Jason Vance lives a harrowing life on the road in the service of his two musical cybernetic overlords, GTRBOT666 and DRMBOT0110. All three make up the fantastic act Captured! by Robots, and performance portmanteau of the Terminator and Chuck E. Cheese’s Munch’s Make Believe Band. The music is loud and rad, and the […]
Captured! by Robots
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Into the Great Wide Open
Everyone gets the blues, they just come in different tones and intensities, and like every color and feeling, appear different in the summer. I am no different in this respect and have recently discovered the need to work on new habits and skills to change the wavelengths a bit. One such trick is writing myself […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Feb. 24
The New Pelicans are somewhat of a phoenix-like group, having risen from the ashes of our late local folk country band The Handshakers with four of its members in the lineup, including guitarists and singer/songwriters Mike Bynum and Michael Walker, the latter a master luthier as well. The sound hits all the beloved notes of […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Dec.9
Every so often there’s a band that I find myself writing about repeatedly that simply occupies its own territory in the landscape of our culture. One of those lurching mutants that scuttles around the margins of society with enough force to overcome its oddness and allow it to exist as a rolling juggernaut. Well, tonight […]
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Alive and Kicking
I’ve been thinking about the stage a lot lately, and live music in general. The last time I played a live show (before this year) was Sept. 11, 2017, when I played guitar for a krautrock-influenced jazz group that my friends and I threw together to open for my buddy Mike Dillon’s band. It was […]
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Once More, with Feeling
All right, here we go again. We’ve got a lull in the pandemic wave action and, for better or for worse, live music is being made with a few minor protective caveats. I hope the COVID-19 Joint Information Center shutting its doors on April Fool’s Day is not an augury of human folly, and I […]