Zapruder Point

On Saturday, Amy and I took a short drive down 290 to the UIC Pavilion where I was scheduled to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” before the Windy City Rollers‘ bout against the traveling Colorado team. I admit to fairly large butterflies in my stomach on first entering the place. I hadn’t been there since one [...]

While in Cleveland, I met a friend of a friend who was, like me, visiting from Chicago. Sneza said she was in a pair of bands, one of which had a standing gig every other Thursday at a coffee shop in Pilsen. Since I’m of course always whoring myself out for gigs, I asked if [...]

I have a couple of “proper bar” shows next week, my first since “getting back into it” about…8 months ago…? (Cole’s was quiet enough, and the stage secluded enough, for it to not really count, in my book.)  These are shows at fully-functioning watering holes, and I’m sharing bills with some full-bore rock bands. Very [...]

I went all-out nutty with gig-grubbing emails at the very beginning of the year, and for a while there I was worried that I’d get exactly NO bites, but no! I mean yes! I have a show back at the Uncommon Ground in Wrigleyville on Friday 2/5. And there are slight feelers out for stuff [...]

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 [...]