Category Archives: rock

Weird Womb’s Tour Manager

Last week Dakota Pollock of Weird Womb asked me to write a band bio. I became friends with the group’s singer and Johnny the guitarist at the 169 Lounge, Chinatown’s epic dive bar on East Broadway and had seen the Tucson quartet at Shea Stadium, so I told Dakota, “Sure.” They were my favorite new […]

WALK ON THE WILD SIDE – Lou Reed – Movie

Lou Reed 71 RIP

I never saw the Velvet Underground or heard Lou Reed live. Those gaps were added to missing Woodstock or opting to see Sha-Na-Na instead of David Bowie in 1971, but one spring night in 1970 I was lying on the sofa with my high school sweetheart. Kyla’s mother was out with her Portugese boyfriend and […]

PATH THROUGH THE FOREST by The Factory 1968

PATH THROUGH THE FOREST is an unknown classic from psychedelic UK. It came from a seven song LP. I have no idea about the band members. This song rocks. To hear PATH THROUGH THE FOREST by The Factory, please go to the following URL

Sounds of Massachusetts

A 2007 article by Laura Barton in the UK Guardian suggested that the Modern Lovers ROADRUNNER should be the state song of Massachusetts. Such a good idea took time to fester in the minds of Bay State residents, but a local politician picked up the torch for the underground hit extolling riding on “Route 128 […]