1st annual Pearl Street Festival
Saturday, October 24th was a gorgeous day for The Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. Granbury, TX, just outside the vicinity of crazed Halloween shoppers and blue skies gazers lurked a first annual charity event. Just about 35 miles Southwest of Fort Worth, TX, under those very same blue skies and comfortable temperatures, a quiet historic downtown area [...]
The Spirit Of Roo – Part 2 “Sleepless in Tennessee”
Written by Jerry Grillo
Day one of Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival was really just a continuation
of the day before Bonnaroo. One long, wet, sometimes frustrating,
ultimately bouncy day. If I rave a bit, it’s from going about 36 hours
without sleep, and counting, helped along by several different types of bad
American beer.
Ben the photographer and I saw [...]
The Spirit Of Roo (Bonnaroo) – Part 1 “The Preview”
Readers, and festival foes, after ten years, we finally have our man on the inside. The random interactions of web-life have brought the M.E. staff to a new (but scratchy) talent who will be attending Bonnaroo this weekend and reporting the ups, downs and sideways of course.
Music Emissions say hello to Jerry G (Grillo), [...]
Lucinda Williams Live In Calgary
On Monday night I had the pleasure of seeing one of country music’s best songwriters, Lucinda Williams. She really put on a great show proving that not only is she a great songwriter but fantastic performer as well.
The band that opened up was an instrumental band called Buick 6. They played for quite a while [...]
TV On The Radio: Live In Calgary
I’m not usually big on live show reviews but I enjoyed the TV On The Radio show so much last week I thought I would write a few words about it.
Atmosphere, Live at the Slowdown
photos courtesy of Michael Stegmaier
Atmosphere’s Paint the Nation tour comes to Omaha
Tilly and the Wall, August 7th 2008
A thirty-something year old woman wearing a simple black dress enters the auditorium and somehow, amongst this very diverse crowd, she looks like the outsider. Her normality in this mob of celebrated variety makes her look like the one girl who showed up not knowing it was a costume party. This isn’t to [...]
God Damn the Merciless
It’s 3 o’clock in the afternoon and I’m walking up to the Waiting Room which, in an hour, will be playing host to a Battle of the Bands competition. Typically these are proving grounds for bands of youth: those with little experience or facial hair. You will not see School of Arms, The [...]
Cigarettes, Hippies, and the Approaching Storm
Please keep your shoes on and if you’re going out to smoke, leave your drinks inside.
