CD review:Rooftop Revolutionaries, Resolute

[new music] Rooftop Revolutionaries, Resolute Tweet Heavy Metal Protest Music For The Occupy Generation reviewed by Reviewer Rob Heavy metal is alive and this is some for the Occupy generation, rock and roll protest music for pissed off citizens that have a right to be heard. Back in the 60’s lots of bands got on the anti-war wagon and made […]

Meet Matt Strachota, Y’alt-Country Rocker, Anti-Statist

[Interview] Matthew Strachota: “I’m An Anarchist!” Tweet Printed below is a Q&A taken from an IM exchange conducted recently via Facebook with Matt Strachota, formerly of Bartender’s Bible, a now split-up Americana y’alt-punk band in San Diego. His new band is Trailduster, also in the olde-timey Americana genre. They played in early July at The Black Cat bar in City […]

Music Chronicle: Beatboxing

MC Generik’s History Of Beatboxing Tweet Decades after the Appalachian vocal technique known as “eefing” hit its peak… By MC Generik Hey, this is Generik, providing you with a brief history and insight on the art of beatboxing. Some consider it the lost 5th-element of hip-hop but, trust me, the art is far from lost. Decades after the Appalachian vocal […]

Can Art Give Us Hope?

[Art Scene] A Recent Event in Connecticut Tweet By Jason Stoneking I didn’t realize until quite recently that on some level I am actively looking for hope. If you would have asked me a few years ago, I might well have said that the portrayal of hope was somehow sappy or pedestrian, something better left to the realm of Disney […]

book review: Reaching Out With No Hands: Reconsidering Yoko Ono, by Lisa Carver

[Books] Reaching Out With No Hands: Reconsidering Yoko Ono Tweet by Lisa Carver, from Backbeat Books, $18.99, biography, 5×7″ (approx) hardcover with dust jacket, 154 pages, 2012, backbeatbooks.com book review by Reviewer Rob In 1994 or 95 was weaning off of being the drunk nightclub photographer at Revolt in Style magazine because I had a habit of shooting nude photos […]

Tex-Mex Garage Rock Supreme!

The Copper Gamins Los Ninos de Cobre Saustex Media, 2012 Reviewed by Kent Manthie The Copper Gamins are keeping things going with their new CD, Los Ninos de Cobre. It is a follow up to their debut EP from last year (2012). They bring an authenticity with their love of the blues and they take their blues-lovin’ sounds to a […]