I am back into writing at least a little something (if not more) about every show I see in 2023. I hope I can keep it up and I encourage you to bug me if I slack. I will post them here on a monthly basis. …

Here are reviews from the first part of October. Here is my Desert Daze review. As for the rest of October, here is my unedited thoughts as posted elsewhere, if you are interested, please do read! October 13: I have a thing where a band can kind of blow you…

In an effort to continue reviewing shows, here’s a brief (lolololol) synopsis of what I’ve been up to the last 5 days… 13 shows in all! Friday 7Oct22 Friday night started with a trip to the west side, an art gallery in Chelsea called Atlantic Gallery, where Bill Frisell’s wife…

Finally made it to Desert Daze last weekend and these are some thoughts as I try to coax myself back into writing regularly about livemusic again. Your encouragement is encouraged. So, I’ve ended up seeing a few more music festivals this year than I have in past years and have…

When I first got into Phish back in the early 90’s, the newsletter was just called the Phish newsletter, no weird name, no nothing. But it did include a little serial comic strip in it. Yes, there was a comic inside the newsletter, made by Pollock, perhaps it’s something you…

The first time I went to the Newpor Folk Festival, I planned on buying a ticket at the gate and when I got to the box office there was someone there who had an extra and with some combination of kindness and convenience they “miracled” me the ticket for free…

Ten years ago, I wrote this on my old blog. It captures one of the more critical moments in my life, a moment when I think I truly started to become the person I am today. It remains one of my favorite things I’ve written, so I’m republishing it here…

I will say from the start that this is a dumb question and my answer may be (certainly is!) equally as ridiculous, but it’s something I think about from time to time, something I’ve developed my own opinion on over the years, and something I’ve been wanting to write up…

For a while I used to do a “favorite artist of the year” write-up and then I stopped for a while. I made it a point not to repeat any of them and it was fun to think of a single musician or band who encompassed an entire year… or…