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Buried Treasure: The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players(0)
The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players are a self-described “indie-vaudeville-conceptual-art-rock-slideshow band,” who count among their fans Simpsons creator Matt Groening, David Cross, Eugene Mirman, The White Stripes’ Meg White, and director John Waters, who describes the band’s gigs as being “like The Lawrence Welk Show gone insane.”
I used to see this band all the time on [...]
SXSW: And So It Begins…
The ides of March are here, and with it the whirlwind that is South By Southwest.
Each year music junkies from all over the country descend on Austin for the movable feast of music, panels and technology that has defined the festival for more than a quarter century. We plan to be in the thick of [...]
Drinks With: Arctic Monkeys
photo credit: Timshel Matheny
Skip Matheny— currently a songwriter in the band Roman Candle and former bartender in a retirement community — caught up with Alex Turner and Matt Helders of the Arctic Monkeys before their show in Chicago, Illinois, last fall.
Online Exclusive: This is a full transcript of this text, which includes several questions and answers [...]
How To Make The Whole World Sing: “Back In Black”
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On occasion, I receive some very kind correspondence regarding this blog. On others, not so much: Last Thursday, a scathing missive from Rhonda in Omaha jumped out at me from my inbox like a demented hedgehog. Rhonda, in a most decidedly post-Shakespearian English, detailed the ways in which the opinions expressed here were providing no [...]
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