Looky at what I found. Redd Kross playing “Jimmy’s Fantasy” at NXNE a few weeks ago. Much of their set is posted as well.

I was trying to figure out how to get around a bug in the WYSIWYG editor when I decided to upgrade Word Press. Unfortunately, I lost the theme I’ve been using the last couple of years so I had to change it. It’s still a work in progress so please no snarky e-mails.  I’ll finish the changes to the CSS files prolly sometime tomorrow night.

This year’s North by Northeast (NXNE) festival marked a bit of a change for me. To begin with, it was my first trip outside Montreal since I moved here last month. Second, I’ve needed some time off; the two weeks that elapsed since I left RNAO and joined the CEC weren’t exactly relaxing. So I was looking forward to returning to something familiar and check out some bands I really wanted to see and hopefully discover some new ones.
The people who program the festival always do a great job; there …

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But yeah, I’m in Montreal now.

Better late than never: I had a hell of a good time at the Drive-By Trucker’s show at the Opera House last Wednesday. They played for 2 1/2 hours (!) and their set list was pretty varied. They didn’t play all the songs I wanted to hear, but with Jason Isbell no longer in the band, that’s too be expected I guess.
That aside, the only song with their current line-up that they didn’t play that I wanted to hear was “Carl Perkin’s Cadillac”, but seeing as they played “Where …

Gaunt had their moments back in the day. Part of the surprisingly rich Columbus, Ohio scene back in the early ’90s, along with the New Bomb Turks and Cheater Slicks, Gaunt made a couple of great records before making the disappointing Bricks and Blackouts, which showed the band with all their rough edges sanded down. Anyway, ever since I heard their single “Jim Motherfucker” from the 7″ of the same name, it’s been in my head on many occaisons. It just rocks. The record it’s on is pretty hard to …

There have been a lot of tributes to singer-songwriter John Stewart on his passing a few weeks ago, but I think this performance of “Mother Country” from his signature release, 1969′s California Bloodlines, speaks for itself. This was recorded in April 2007.

Every year I do a list of favorite releases from the past year. It’s a hold over from my days as a fanzine editor, where I used to do a Top 10 list of favorite stuff that I came across between issues.
This year I decided to make a change. I decided to say just what I think and feel about a release and ignore the old professional music journalist in me that demanded at least a modicum of objectivity.
This list is in no particular order as each one is tops …