Zapruder Point

“Singers (and possibly listeners of music too) when they write or perform a song don’t so much bring to the work already formed emotions, ideas, and feelings as much as they use the act of singing as a device that reproduces and dredges them up. The song remakes the emotion — the emotion doesn’t produce [...]

I set up this show as a challenge to myself, since when I attempted to play here a little over a year ago things went very, very poorly. Since then, I’ve come to realize that more shameful than the fact that, IMHO, the Buzz Cafe doesn’t really care about music (and probably shouldn’t ever host [...]

This was part of Raleigh’s “First Friday,” where they open up all the art galleries in town and have special events — music, food, drinks, all that good stuff. I “opened” for my brother Scott, a.k.a. The Monologue Bombs, who’s played this venue a few times before. We were surprised, then, to find that we [...]

[UPDATE:  The other band on the bill this night was Prabir And The Substitutes.  Quite good!] First things first: This wasn’t a Zapruder Point show at all. I was merely sitting in with Goner for the last three songs of their set on a Thursday night at Irish Pub Tir Na Nog. Still, I learned [...]