Do You Want New Wave (Or Do You Want The Truth)?

Posted by Lance Davis - February 25, 2011 - Iris Dement

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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, San Francisco, CA October 8, 2006 I’m proud to say Iris DeMent emerges from the same Orange County, California, background as me (her: Buena Park, me: La Habra & Huntington Beach). This song may be folk music superficially, but lyrically it’s punk as fuck. If Iris says justice sinks to the […]

Kickstart Bob Forrest Documentary

Posted by Lance Davis - February 23, 2011 - Bob Forrest, Thelonious Monster

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Thelonious Monster and Bob Forrest fans can help fund the new documentary about his life, Bob And The Monster. Filmmaker Keirda Bahruth has spent the last six years chronicling his rise, fall, and rise. Another $1000 and her project covers costs of music rights, archival clearances, sound mix, and Bob’s fleet of limo Priuses. He’s […]

The Pitfalls of the City are Extremely Real

Posted by Lance Davis - February 20, 2011 - Backsliders, Bicycle Thief, Bob Forrest, Chris Hillman, Dwight Yoakam, Emmylou Harris, Flaco Jimenez, Gram Parsons, Iris Dement, Merle Haggard, Warren Zevon, Willie Nelson

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Like California, Los Angeles has been rebuked and scorned in book, film, song, musical, vaudeville, pretty much every medium dating back to protozoan wall art. It’s easy to hate LA. I don’t have much of a problem with the city, beyond traffic, but the entertainment-industrial complex is a whoremaker chewing up everything in its […]

Turn Your Pretty Head and Walk Away

Posted by Lance Davis - February 6, 2011 - James Gang, Joe Walsh, Li'l Cap'n Travis, Thelonious Monster

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Li’l Cap’n Travis - Teenage Mustache > James Gang - Walk Away “Braces and a teenage mustache Sit beside me in my Mustang We can listen to the James Gang Turn your pretty head and walk away” We’ll get to the James Gang in a second, but first some love for Austin’s Li’l Cap’n […]