Shows, Shows, and More Shows
So Record Store Day was a few weeks ago and I played my first show in something like 9 years (I counted) the eve before and opened for Kid, You’ll Move Mountains. In addition to having my wife in my corner, fellow bloggers Reba (from Love Shack Baby) and Steve (from Baby Stew) were there (Read more…)
Record Store Day, Kid, You’ll Move Mountains, & Me
A week from this coming Saturday is Record Store Day 2011. That’s April 16th folks. Go out, buy some vinyl and support your local independent record stores. I’ll be checking out the Midnight Sale at Kiss The Sky in Geneva, IL and doing my part. Before that sale starts, I’ll be hanging out with my (Read more…)
An incomplete history of Chicago punk rock (vol. 28)
I’m not sure what other “category” to put this post in, so it just sorta haphazardly ends up as part of this series. Just go with it. So on what was the sunny afternoon of December 23, 1997 the three guys in Allister (that’s me on bass, John on guitar, and Tim on drums) went (Read more…)
Allister / August Premier – Live 10/3/10 @ Subterranean
I know this is about 2 months late, but sometimes things just work that way. Chicago’s Subterranean played host to the record release show for Allister’s new album Countdown To Nowhere. We saw a few old friends but it was pretty low key affair. The recently reunited August Premier along with Danger Is My Middle (Read more…)
Allister – Countdown To Nowhere
Here we are some three-plus years after Allister originally called it quits, but right on the heels of the band’s recent performance at Bamboozle Chicago and I’m writing about their new (yes, new) album, Countdown To Nowhere. It’s the band’s fourth full-length album and first since 2005’s Before The Blackout. Countdown To Nowhere isn’t scheduled (Read more…)
CYSTSFTS has a Facebook page
Did you know that Can You See the Sunset now has a Facebook page? Well, we do. Become a fan or like it or whatever they call it now to follow updates and more… There are also so many great bands from Chicago so I’d also like to put out a call for local bands (Read more…)
My Daughter Hailey vs. Scott Murphy
Out of the blue a few months ago I got a call from my former Allister band mate Scott Murphy about the possibility of having our oldest daughter Hailey model for the cover of his upcoming CD Guilty Pleasures Love. Scott is (for those of you who don’t know) somewhat of a pop star in (Read more…)
