Thunder Pie | And Then We Have Breakfast and Then We Meet Up with...
Many years ago when I was a boy, I began to wonder about God. My mom said she believed and I guess she did. But it was half-assed by...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Mom’s Just Not Cool Enough
There are loads of examples of musicians recording or performing with their parents or their kids, but almost nobody seems to have their mom in the band. I'm kind...
Thunder Pie | The High Lonesome Penns Valley Blues
“I shall not leave these prisoning hills
Though they topple their barren heads to level earth
And the forests slide uprooted out of the sky.
Though the waters of Troublesome, of Trace...
20 Questions With Bob Gaulke
Bob Gaulke is probably not somebody who believes less is more. Or that a little is enough. That much is obvious from the Bronx singer-songwriter and bassist’s absurdly prolific...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel: Hits That Nobody Misses
OK, I'll admit it. I bought a copy of the Didn't You Kill My Brother single by Alexei Sayle. I just watched the video now. Holy cats, is it...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Makin’ Them Look Mean
There's a great line in the ’70s Paul Newman hockey movie Slapshot, where one of the Chiefs players is bashing dents in the side of the team bus, inspired...
Thunder Pie | Stabbed In The Neck By Some Kid With A Pencil: Tiny...
Pee-Paw Decides What to Write About.
Coffee. Folgers. Or Walmart brand. Cheap coffee, with like two or three fingers of milk and a healthy/ unhealthy dose of sugar. No fake...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Killed By Death
John Lennon has been dead for three years more than he was alive — and more than twice as long as he was famous. But the beloved Beatle will...
Thunder Pie | Idiots
“For a long time I had to fight against a feeling of aversion for my country; now I am beginning to accustom myself to all the horrors that make...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel: Artists At The End Of The Road
“So I went to the doctor, see what he could give me
He said, ‘Son, son, you've gone too far.’ ”
— Black Sabbath, Fairies Wear Boots
It was a little heartbreaking...
20 Questions With Demi Ramos
Demi Ramos does not waste time. Yours or hers. Recently, the multi-tasking, fast-rising N.Y.C. pop-rocker got a head start on summer with the exclusive Tinnitist premiere of her energetic...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Sublime And Ridiculous
My girlfriend (...she) suggested I go investigate subliminal messaging (...rocks) in popular music. There are two kinds of subliminal messaging, and one is distinctly more common than the other....
Thunder Pie | Death Of A Rocker
“The meaning of life is that it stops.”
— Franz Kafka
It was a sunny day. I remember that much. The fuzz of sunshine joists crashing through the blinds. Elasticated seams...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Musicians Turned Politicians
Popular music and democracy are mutually exclusive. There are loads of performers with title designations — like, for example, Prince of Pop, King of Rock and Roll, Queen Of...
Thunder Pie | A Horse That Looks Hard At The Sun
“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”
— Toni Morrison
At the stoplight before I hook the...
