Last week, local heavy music aficionado, New York native and Natty Dog Hot Dogs cart wrangler Eric Riccio died. That he died of a heart attack at a local heavy metal show should not be a source of grief for his many friends, customers and casual acquaintances, but one of pride. Eric loved OG punk […]
The Handshakers
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Bienvenidos
As an ad hoc cultural ambassador to the region and self-professed “music bozo,” I’d like to humbly welcome the assorted students of the area back to the academic grind. I won’t waste your time with a bunch of flutey language and annoying BS; I will instead direct your no doubt divided attentions to this big […]
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The Handshakers Find Their Place
All albums have their proper element, a setting where the music makes the most sense. David Byrne once noted that music is built for specific spaces. Cathedrals were made to hold certain sacred sounds and vice versa, while stadium rock doesn’t make any sense outside of the thin PA systems of famous ballparks and the […]
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Anniversaries
One of the promises I made at the end of December was to spend the coming year with less of a dense layer between myself and you the reader. I have heard from some of you — and I thank you all for the feedback. As I have mentioned here before, I was a resident […]
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Music Tonight: Sunday, June 17
I’d like to take this opportunity to wish my own father a happy one from afar because he is currently visiting his parents’ land of Canada. And having outed my family as immigrants, I would also like to take a moment to state that ICE is an American Gestapo and that I fully support its […]
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Fathers and Fests
We are creeping toward the salad days of summer, my dears, and this week has some proper preludes for that laziest, grasshopper-ish of seasons. Oyster Fest is here (a truly strange notion to me as no one sensible in my former home of Louisiana eats oysters in the warm months, but we are luckily blessed […]
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Amp Up and Ramp Up
It’s a packed week of great music so I will keep this intro as lean and mean as a vintage WWF wrestler’s rant track. Here goes: The weather’s fine, the music’s good, so get off the couch ya potatoes (hold the last vowel sound before cutting with the sibilant S) and see some dang shows! […]