show coverage Pustules photos and video by Reviewer Rob Straight from Lyon, France, bar band The Pustules brought their high-school marching-band horn antics to Ocean Beach and played at the Harp on Newport Avenue on Sunday, the night after grooving a larger crowd up the street at Portugalia. They performed a long set that included many recognizable covers such as […]
shows
uk scene
interview: Enter Shikari interviewed by Natasha Jones Synth and Metal, a genre that has exploded since Enter Shikari hit the scene, with enough metal for the moshers to get dirty, but enough synth to relax the more fragile; I caught up with Enter Shikari on their recent UK tour where they were debuting some of their second album material, being […]
Young and Beautiful, by Fingerpistol
cd review Generosity You Can Dance To band: Fingerpistol album: Young and Beautiful Reviewed by Billy Bunker I wrote a poem in ( I think it was 9th grade) and the teacher called my parents in and told them I’d plagiarized it. I swore up and down that I hadn’t and ultimately she couldn’t prove me wrong, but I don’t […]
art bio with pictures
Suria Kassimi duesseldorf.de/kuenstlerlebenmyspace.com/suriakassimi Qualification Art historian M. A. Education 1975 – 1980 HdK Berlin 1981 – 1986 Ruhr University of Bochum (Philosophy, Archeology, Art history, Roman languages and literature, Political science and Sociology) 1986 – 1989 Italy: Facoltà di Architettura Florence Università degli Studi di Bologna; div. Gallery practical courses in Rome and Bologna1989 – 1993 motherhood 1998 reaching of […]
NEW HAMPSHIRE BLACKOUT DISPATCH
[Last winter, during the ice storm of December 13, 2008, after after a series of texts amid news reports of regional blackouts, Lisa sent in this story about the terrible weather they were experiencing in New Hampshire. Took a while for me to post it but now with the website redesign I think it’s finally time. ~Rob] The Frigid Northeast […]
This Is The End
This Is The End or, well maybe it is not … of this blog. From now on, (or so I thought) all new posts will be HERE. But now it looks like I might be adding old files to the database and making it all one again. We shall see.
beer snobbery
Cocktail Lounge Ephemera Below is a piece of paper picked up by Newport Tim, reportedly at The Wits End, a bar on Robinson Ave, where someone has composed a story using all the names of the beers available at the bar at the time. Click the pic to enlarge.
Cigarbox Guitar
Keeping The Blues Alive! Video report by Reviewer Rob Hopefully this is more proof that the blues won’t die off. I was in La Jolla today checking the waves at Windansea and saw this guy playing a cigarbox guitar/banjo contraption he said he made himself. Said his name was Zach and he’d do a video of him playing it for […]