The Entroporium

Rock world mourns a mate: Crowded House’s Paul Hester commits suicide I saw Crowded House several times over the years. I (basically) met my longtime paramour at one of their shows, and our relationship sometimes seems to use Crowded House/Neil Finn shows as checkpoints along the way. (Doesn’t every couple have a longtime band like [...]

Universal Records had its share of odd moments. A few of my favorites include: * Gandalf, the crazy coupon man, saw Jonathan Richman walking by with his guitar and conned him into playing a few songs. * Marc declaring ELO Week, so we blasted Out Of The Blue for a week straight, which confused our [...]

If you’re in SF, here’s a good possibility for your Saturday night. This is a benefit for my Burning Man camp. (I always have to hesitate before I type something like that.)

Slate has the skivvy on yesterday’s Supreme Court oral arguments on file-sharing technology.

I’m not really sure how it happened, but somehow I wormed my way from “hanging out” to “working” at Universal Records, which was the name that The Music Faucet took on when it moved up between Bancroft and Telegraph. This was prime real estate — close to campus, next to Rasputin’s Records and across from [...]

I suppose I should follow up on last week’s Tuxedomoon post as well. I did attend the show last Saturday and unfortunately I found it a pretty wearying affair. There were some highlights to be sure — I especially enjoyed “Desire” — but at the end it basically reminded me that this band was a [...]

A few entries are needed just to catch up on events of the last week. Stupid NCAA Tournament! I’m doing miserably in my own pool. Oh, the ignominy! First and best, I went to see The Decemberists at Bimbo’s on Wednesday night. I’m only recently on The Decemberists’ bandwagon and I’ve very impressed by what [...]

Running a college basketball pool definitely sets back your ability to write interesting posts, and tonight I’ve got setting up my fancy new iBook to preoccupy me! The So-Called Post-Punk Life will resume shortly. While writing the MSCPPL series last week, I had the good fortune to run across Marc Time, a former colleague from [...]

Tuxedomoon was a local art-punk band that I found by way of The Residents. Ralph had signed them and then of course I just had to have their whole back catalogue. Their first couple of EPs, Tuxedomoon and Scream With A View were particularly great because they seemed so enigmatic. Self-released, hardly any liner notes, [...]