The Spaceman Of Ocean Beach San Diego, CA YOU GOTTA HEAR THIS The drunken, sporadic genius of O.B.’s Spaceman By Sarah Gordon If you hung out in Ocean Beach in the ’80s or early ’90s, you surely knew Spaceman. Every day, the old, blind and usually drunk man sat in his wheelchair on Newport Street wearing a self-promoting “Spaceman” t-shirt […]
Jazz Psychedelia
new music: James Haitchwai, Code
Washington DC singer/songwriterJames Haitchwai releases Code review by Kathryn Reade “The first step – especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money – the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. […]
San Diego BAD FOOD review: Brick Alley
“Would you like a side order ofHershey Squirts with that awful chicken?” Brick Alley 3577 Midway Drive Reviewer’s Tweets * Bad food alert! Lookout for the “1-Quarter Chicken” dinner at Brick Alley, 3577 Midway Drive, SD 92110. Undercooked or spoilt, still unsure. 2 hours ago by Rob Reviewer Still don’t feel too good. Bleagh! Just look at this shit. I […]
Detroit’s New “Artist” District
Got $100? Welcome to your new Detroit home from CNN.com Story Highlights: * Detroit artists buy a trashed, abandoned house for $100, fix it up * Other artists have bought cheap houses in the same neighborhood * The Power House was the first home, meant to power the other houses nearby By Ashley Fantz (CNN) — If an e-mail popped […]
New App Recommendation
Awesome new application: UberTwitter! If you have a smartphone, GET IT NOW! … Especially if you like posting photo tweets. ~RR
Hugh Gaskins and the G String Daddies
Fine, fine San Diego Blues Hugh Gaskins & The G String Daddies Rock The House review by Peter Wacks Fusion. It’s that inescapable moment when two objects are brought together and their inherent energy is released with an explosive reaction. Hugh Gaskins and the G String Daddies have managed to find that in music. Somewhere between the sad guitar licks […]
From Caen, France: Ann’So M.
Introducing Ann’So M. myspace.com/annsommusic The new album of Ann’So M. will feature the track “Je ne veux pas être celle” (“I don’t want to be the one”) recorded, mixed, arranged and played at home by Louis Bertignac. Singer and songwriter Ann’So M. was born in December 25 in Caen (France). Very soon, she begins music in the Conservatoire where she […]
“Why didn’t I notice such cold detachment from the star?”
[lyrics] The Step And The Walk by The Duke Spirit Ten English pounds and these hot pavement fields, As though I’m moving to the end, am I moving to the end of your loving? How, how did I do this? Me, I put the water on my heart. Why didn’t I notice such cold detachment from the star? Oh, the […]