“Just Some Gypsy,” video

Plainclothes Tracy Check out the video, “Just Some Gypsy,” from this Knoxville, TN, based three-piece. You can also hear their new track “Fort Knox Graffitti,” at myspace.com/plainclothestracy. ~RR Just Some Gypsy

Doing The Time: Bernie Madoff

The prince of swindlers can be sentenced to up to 150 years in prison today… 1. What prison sentence should Bernard Madoff receive? … And the survey says: The 12 years his lawyer seeks: 6% The maximum 150 years: 74% Something in between: 21% Total responses to this question: 25749 [Above, the current results to the poll located at CNN […]

The Hickoids at The Ocean Beach Steet Fair

Winston’s hosted a 1:30 PM show by The Hickoids yesterday, and while most of the crowd appeared to be still waking up at that early afternoon hour on a Saturday, Jeff and his band kicked it out. I’ll have a formal review with videos later, but for now to tide you over here’s a pic of Jeff wowing the audience […]

Recommended Shows Today!

In San Diego The Hickoids with The Screamin Yeehaws myspace.com/hickoids at Winstons, during the Ocean Beach Street Fair, at 1PM (moved up from 2PM) 1921 Bacon St San Diego, CA 92107-2805 (619) 222-6822 … or, if you’re up north… In San Fransisco: Rube Waddell & Faun Fables live tonight! 6/27 Hosted by: Rube Waddell, myspace.com/rubewaddell 10PM Bottom of the Hill […]

The King (“Of Pop”) Is Dead

Michael Jackson “A.B.C.’s of a legend remembered” by R.A. Moore The green and gray Sheriff’s Department helicopter, labeled Rescue 5 just sat down at the Los Angeles county Coroner’s building. As the personnel climbed out of the unit, removing their flight helmets, the fading evening glow of a California sunset cast its auburn rays on the remains of pop idol, […]

yin/yang symbiotic state

Kim Acrylic and the Northern Drones Fanfare Meltdown Review by J. Darren Lee Beat poetry and psychedelic rhythms is what one immediately thinks when listening to Kim Acrylic and the Northern Drones’ ‘Fanfare Meltdown” for the first time. But it is so much more than that. Influenced heavily by classic experimental bands such as The Velvet Underground, and by beat […]

Urban Folk

“Young, Yet Weathered and Knowledgeable” Musician & Lyricist Justin Andrew’s blue-jeans and bare feet music Review by R.A. Moore As much as I appreciate the twists and turns that the music entertainment business impales us with, I cannot help but appreciate when a new, young artist flips the pages of the calendar back and melds vintage composition and method with […]

Americana from Pittsburgh, PA

Transplant [ep], from Justin Andrew by Rob Reviewer The hand-printed CD package here from Justin Andrew indicates a true craftsman’s diligent attention to detail, and this is a trait which comes up again and again in his music. Justin Andrew is a craftsman’s musician. Transplant is a folksy message from the soil of small-town and back road urban America, towns […]