Tag: Music

Michael Jackson Pinup

J Chris Campbell and Rob Ullman will be trekking it out to San Diego this year for the big Comic-Con International (alas, I will not be) and it looks like J. Chris is putting together a Michael Jackson memorial minicomic to sell there.   And, thus, the call went out to all WAPpies for comics and …

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Sketchbook 6/27

Did you know that Sonic Youth has a new record out?  I didn’t until reading about it in the new issue of Signal to Noise magazine.  Based on that article and the reviews of it I’ve seen so far, it seems worth checking out.

Come on Thunderchild: People Let Me Tell You

Here’s some footage of the band I was in back in those halcyon days of the mid-’90s, Come On Thunderchild.  In addition to the core group of four members, this performance features Chris Krull on percussion and Eric Kraus on guitar.  Chris played and toured with us on and off for several years; Eric, though, …

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A Visit to the N.C. Ukulele Academy

The weather here at the beach had been fantastic up until now, but some thunderstorms have blown in as of last night.  With beach-going out of the picture at least temporarily, I figured this’d be a great time for a road trip to Wilmington, N.C.’s North Carolina Ukulele Academy, so I hit the road this …

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Rock of (Bygone) Ages: The Spice Girls ’98

Well, for the second of my “Rock of (Bygone) Ages” posts, I decided to switch gears as much as possible–so, here goes: The Spice Girls at Blockbuster Pavilion ’98. I don’t know that I really liked The Spice Girls; I think I was, though, fascinated by The Spice Girls.  For one thing, they were in …

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