Rob Sherman’s Black Crown crept into parts of my brain that hadn’t been touched by literature for years. I didn’t expec…
Finally, he’s had enough and he tells me he’s pulling the plug any second. We were just starting the third song and the crowd was with us. The soundman finally says“screw this!” and kills the power on the soundboard. Immediate silence. My crew is left standing on stage, looking ...
front of a brick wall. I got within four feet of the stage and just stood there against the bar, ordered a gin and tonic and faced the singer. An older man, he wore a mohair suit, flat cap with a little brim and shiny necktie. The dummer had a rancher’s Stetson on and...
The problems with the vocal PA seemed obvious during See Through Dresses’ opening set. Instrumentally, the band sounded great, you just couldn’t hear the vocals, they were dead or gone from the first note. Who to blame — was it something the band was doing wrong on stage or was it ...
When it comes to The Waiting Room, co-owner Marc Leibowitz pointed to early shows from Dr. Dog and Brother Ali as among his favorites. “Then we’ve had some legends play at The Waiting Room, like Steve Earle,” he said. “Lee Ranaldo was just so f—-ing phenomenal the night he ...
Still, there had to be more to it if poverty-level musicians were willing to lay out literally thousands of dollars in tip money to travel to Austin with the bravest hope of just not getting lost in the sideshow. What do they want from SXSW? That's what I asked a handful of local ...
I tried a couple more techniques fromInside The Mind of a Caton my own moggies: Slow blinking is apparently like a cat kiss but when I did it both my cats stared back at me like I had lost my mind. But a nose boop got good results from my fluffy cat Rudi – she closed her eyes...