Louis Overstreet gives way to Iggy Pop
I was just turned on to Reverend Louis Overstreet by Brian Turner at WFMU. According to Turner, Overstreet “made people go flippin punk rock crazy way before Iggy or 77.” And here’s video of Overstreet...
View ArticleOld man considers seeing bands
I don’t write about music very often, as, for the most part, I’m now too old to enjoy such things, but there are some great shows coming up this summer. I doubt that I’ll actually go and see any of...
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John Brannon in the Metro Times, and on SNL
The new issue of the Detroit Metro Times has a pretty good feature on John Brannon, the former lead singer of the band the Laughing Heyenas. While he’s likely more famous for his earlier band – the...
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When did punks become hippies?
Occasionally, as a public service, I like to reprint something here from Facebook, for all the folks that I can’t bring myself to “friend.”So, any thoughts? Am I alone in thinking that the folks who...
View Article“punk wasn’t a musical style”
I’m waiting for Clementine to fall asleep, drinking a well-deserved beer, and skipping around the internet, looking for archival footage from the early days of CBGBs. And, in the process, I happened...
View ArticleTom Snyder, new wave, and Kim Fowley
I’ve got work to do tonight, but I can’t seem to find the energy. So, I’m procrastinating, watching old episodes of The Tomorrow Show, and bemoaning the fact that we don’t have good, substantive late...
View ArticleIggy Pop on American Idol
I’m not sure how I feel about this.I guess shit like that can’t happen anymore, given how scripted everything is, and how nothing’s really live, but I would have loved it if they’d sent him out to do...
View ArticleM.O.T.O. at the Dreamland Theater June 9
This guy that I know is putting together a show at the Dreamland Theater next Thursday night, and, as it involves a band that I feel as though I should probably know, I thought that I’d pass it along....
View ArticleOld men rant about “the problem with kids today” at the Shadow Art Fair
Among the musical acts to perform at yesterday’s Shadow Art Fair was band called Druid Perfume. I know Brewery management wasn’t too happy about the volume, but I found them to be a nice change of pace...
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Dischord’s Ian MacKaye on touring as a family, building community, making the...
I had the occasion this evening to speak with Ian MacKaye, the former frontman of Minor Threat and Fugazi, who will be visiting Ypsilanti this Friday evening to play an all-ages show at the Dreamland...
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The Untold History of Zines…. Russ Forster on the 8-Track Mind
In an attempt to better document the American underground press, or at least the sharp, tiny sliver of it that I find most interesting, I’ve given myself the task of reaching out to all of those former...
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The Ramones are dead. Long live the Ramones.
It’s being reported this morning that Tommy Ramone, co-founder of the seminal New York punk band The Ramones, and last surviving member of the original group, died yesterday at the age of 65.If I had...
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John Doe: On the origins of X, what the history books get wrong about the LA...
I had the opportunity a few days ago to speak briefly with John Doe of the legendary Los Angeles punk band X. Doe, along with his bandmates Exene Cervenka, Billy Zoom, DJ Bonebrake, after making their...
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Danny Fields… the man who signed the Stooges, discovered the Ramones, and...
Almost a year ago now, I received an email from a reader of this site by the name of Bob Nolan, who, knowing of my love for the Ramones and Stooges, suggested that I talk with a friend of his named...
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Introducing Ypsi’s newest theater company… the Neighborhood Theatre Group
It was just recently brought to my attention that we’ve now got a new theater company in town. They’re called the Neighborhood Theatre Group, and they’ve got a free show coming up June 5, on North...
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Talking breeders and their larvae with Minus9, driving Björk around Detroit...
Ok, I’m finally getting around to listening to episode 19 of The Saturday Six Pack. I’m not sure why I put it off so long. It’s actually a pretty good show… If you’d like to join me, you can either...
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The Untold History of Zines… Eric Nakamura on Giant Robot
In an attempt to better document the sharp, rusty sliver of the American underground that worked its way through the protective coating of my cold, slowly-beating heart 20-some years ago, I’ve given...
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Ivan Kral takes us behind the scenes at the birth of New York punk, Anne...
A month or so ago, we had local entrepreneur Steffan Graf of on the show, talking about his life on the road with Grand Funk Railroad, and how he went from opening for Led Zeppelin to designing...
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The Patti Smith Group’s Ivan Král on the origins of punk, Anne Brown on her...
I’ve fallen behind in my write-ups of past episodes. I’m sorry about that. I thought, since we were off the air these last two weeks, I’d get caught up, but other things kept getting in the way....
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Remember when John Doe told us that he was going to write a book of his own...
In an interview I did with John Doe of the band X a year or so back, he mentioned that he was writing a book of his own to set the record straight with regard to the history of the LA punk scene. [As...
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