Entries from February 2009

February 19, 2009

Chicana/o music mayhem

Ashley Simpson has been replaced. Gone is the pop craze that swept the MySpace concert series world (at least temporarily anyway) as San Antonio’s own Girl In a Coma and Pinata Protest take over. Plus, they don’t lipsync or need plastic surgery to rock. Yes, the Latin music movement is taking over & gaining [...]

February 18, 2009

a musical journey w/ Lester Bangs: writing a record review

Lester Bangs, music journalist, author & musician (penning record reviews for Creem and Rolling Stone magazines) is even more famous for his notorious tendency to insult and confront his interviewees…
”Well basically I just started out to lead [an interview] with the most insulting question I could think of. Because it seemed to me that the [...]

February 18, 2009

songs of the doomed: Lux Interior

The Cramps founders Lux Interior-sexually ambiguous crowd-teasing front man & his partner in crime Poison Ivy-super-hot psychobilly guitar goddess set out to conquer the New York music scene with their ultra hip brand of leather & mayhem poured out in psychedelia, surf, rockabilly and punk (they recruited drummer Nick Knox in 1977), but in the [...]