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After a steady recovery from a bad car accident a year ago, acoustic punk performer Edward Hamell of Hamell On Trial is ready to get going again. He's making a brief appearance in the UK to promote his album "Choochtown," well-received in Britain by critics and fans. He's just returned from touring with Ani DiFran»
You have to know "Monday, Monday." Even if you didn't before this year, you have to have caught a whiff of it from its incessant rehearsal on "Popstars"--unless you live in a cave. If you don't know "California Dreaming," then your parents lived in a cave. Some songs deserve to be classics--and it takes a very s»
And now for a rambling, stream-of-consciousness account of my trip to South Korea. Have fun and be entertained!! Oh, the charms and advantages of having friends at the jet-set age where we can travel all over the world! We're done with school, we're done with college/university. We don't have kids yet (we»
Sports turn people into animals. The recent stampede of football fans in South Africa is such a sad testament to the disgusting baseness of human nature. Forty-two people were killed by being trod on and crushed into a barbed wire fence by other people, as a mob of 30,000 tried to cram their way into an a»
Sack trick rocked out in Glasgow. The legendary Sack Trick came to my town! We got ourselves psyched up for some metallic mayhem--my mum was visiting from America and she was well up for it. I wasn't quite sure what to expect... I had heard good things from a friend who had seen them in London, and she a»
Are you a funkster? Are you ready for some seriously skilled old skool songwriting that in some bizarre way manages to keep from sounding retro? Do you wanna rock? Phoenix kicks ass!! The date: Sun. January 21st; the venue: King Tut's Wah Wah Hut (Glasgow); the support: Turin Brakes. King Tut's appea»
Young men, young men young men. Take heed of this sage advice and avoid entanglement in the snare of the fowler. There will be girls and women, fantastic and wonderful and amazing, for whom you are not good enough. They will tower above you on their pedestals of perfection, graciously bestowing their presence on you»
