Riding with Frenchette

May 22, 2011.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Now this is STYLE! My friend (and artist) David West shared David Johansen’s Frenchette on Facebook last week and I just can’t stop thinking about this performance. This video captures a period in music that was so alive. These guys really put on a show—no shoe gazing and strenuous intellectual masturbation—just beautiful, raw music that […]

A band I’d want to be backed by . . .

March 23, 2011.Reading time 1 minute.

*Guitar: Ronson meets The Edge, meets Nile Rodgers, meets YOU.
*Bass: Bernard Edwards, meets Flee, meets James Jamerson, meets YOU.
*Drums: Sterling Campbell, meets Phil Rudd, with the ability to vibe like an IAMX groove, meets YOU.

Working Class Hero

February 24, 2011.Reading time 2 minutes.

Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
And you think you’re so clever and classless and free
But you’re still peasants as far as I can see
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be