I saw my 13th Drive By Truckers show on Monday in State College, Pennsylvania. It was another very fine show. You'd think they would get tired as they age, but it was yet another high energy show, going 2 1/2 hours and covering a mere...
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I was fortunate enough to see Tal National, the great band from Niger, about 2 weeks ago in Kingston, New York. This band, which is really more of a collective.
This is the grave of John Philip Sousa. The composer and conductor of America's soundtrack for imperialism and colonization, Sousa was born in Washington, DC in 1854. He arguably would.
Thank God, finally we have some attention being paid to the music of the Baby Boomers. Really, another book on the music of the Vietnam Era is quite overdue, especially when it leads with a band as shitty as Country Joe and the Fish. Meanwhile,...
The main musical story in my life in the last couple of weeks is the discovery of Cocaine and Rhinestones, a podcast on the history of country music by the.
This is the grave of Paul Revere. No, not that one. Paul Revere Dick was born in Harvard, Nebraska in 1938. At some point, his family moved to Idaho. In.
John Darnielle's The Mountain Goats is my favorite band of all time. If I had to choose a best album, it would almost certainly be The Sunset Tree. So, it is with some trepidation that I pass along the following. I must warn you: you...
The grave series will probably always skew to people of longer ago because half of modern people get cremated instead of buried. Sometimes, they are they placed in a cemetery,.
Is it possible to have too much music? It probably is. This is an interesting essay about the problem with a very abbreviated 2017 resolution to only listen to one.
Dolores O'Riordan, the voice of The Cranberries and one of Ireland's greatest musical exports, tragically passed away under currently unknown circumstances earlier this week. In a 2014 incident with the police that The Guardian calls a "hypomanic episode" behavior she would claim to be the...
We need to talk about the new Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees. As always, it's worth noting that Hall of Fame's are stupid generally and that's especially true.
Flashback Friday is back! On a Sunday! Freelance assignments overwhelmed me a bit this month, that's why I've largely been absent from LGM. That's the freelance life though, and hopefully.