On Tuesday night (October 14), Tom Scharpling of The Best Show on WFMU interviewed my main man (the bbf) for a radio segment called “Smash or Trash.” Scharpling has a booming internet presence thanks to his podcast and his MySpace and his Friends of Tom online forum. I avoid the forum because I feel like [...]
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The Armadildoes and The Band Formerly Known as Sausage
The Canonical List of Weird Band Names serves as a study both in teenage psychology and in vulgarity. “Study in Vulgarity” actually makes a good band name. STD N Vulgairity playing at the Atlantico tonight with Meatloaf and the B-52s!
Straight Punch to the Crotch – Rock & Roll Wrestlers
Last night Onestarwatt.com assigned its roving reporter to the CLAW (Charlottesville Lady Arm Wrestlers) match at the Blue Moon Diner. For the first time the wrestling bouts were held outdoors in the beer garden/parking lot, a location which provided spectators with more room to throw their money around. According to the roving reporter, the highlight [...]
Evidence that we are running out of cool band names
The alternative title for this blog post is, of course, “Warped Tour Lineup 2008.” 3OH!3 whole tour A Day to Remember jun 20 – jul 20 Against Me! whole tour Aggrolites whole tour Alesana whole tour All That Remains jul 22 – aug 17 All Time Low jul 22 – aug 17 Anberlin jun 21 [...]
The Satellite Ballroom’s Robot Wares & Record Fair
I am thrilled to announce the return of the Satellite Ballroom’s most outstanding event of the year (after, of course, last week’s Slightly Stoopid show): THE ROBOT WARES & RECORD FAIR! For those of you with superior taste who have lived in Charlottesville for a couple years, you may remember this as THE shopping and [...]
Tanya Tucker might lose her spandex jumpsuits
Poor Tanya Tucker. She has to sing to the Republican Party for her supper, and now she has to battle the fire that is menacing her stage costumes: About 1,400 firefighters battled the Malibu fire that started Sunday morning and had spread more than 2,200 acres, destroying 25 structures — including five homes, a glass [...]
Dark Horse and the Carousels
This is Duane’s song “Crazy.” He is my friend who plays guitar and sings back-up vocals in Dark Horse and the Carousels. I love the song, but I think we should all send the band some money to reshoot the video so it isn’t set in a bedroom under purple lighting and no one is [...]
Music for Your Landscape
I drive to DC fairly often to visit friends, and when I’m there, left to my own devices, I take pleasure in listening to the worst radio stations in the world. I usually have fairly decent taste in music, but the second I get into the DC/Northern Virginia area I want to listen to Top [...]
Important Stuff I Did in the 1960s
Last night I went to DC to visit my friend Keith, whose birthday is tomorrow. Everyone say happy birthday to Keith! Keith is the best. He does not judge you for thinking tapioca pudding is a good late night drunk person food. He is also the ideal person to accompany you when you go the [...]