When Mike Ness of Social Distortion plays anywhere in my vicinity, I want to be there. I’ve seen Social Distortion live at least a dozen times all over the U.S., and have been known to work my travel schedule around their tour stops. On this particular date they’d be playing the beautiful Capital Theatre […]
I’ve been a little tough on Charlie Daniels of the Charlie Daniels Band as of late and I wanted to explain why. Like Charlie, I grew up in Tennessee and remember hearing his music and thinking “this is different” and I liked it. Now I wasn’t a massive country music fan but “The Devil Went […]
For some reason, unknown to me, Social Distortion, to my knowledge, has not toured within the 5 boroughs of NYC (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx or Staten Island) since way back in 2006 when the Roseland Ballroom was around. I saw that show and I’ve seen Social Distortion probably over a dozen times in several different […]
Nasvhille Tennessee, my home town (well close enough) and it’s booming. We were recently in town filming for Raw Travel TV. I know that you know that Nashville is a great music town. We all know about it’s country music legacy and while I don’t have much patience or resepct for today’s modern country music […]
Music owes a lot to the man in black. That unique thump ditta thump of the bass in hits like “Walk The Line” has been adapted and replicated in a more furious tones in many a punk, psychobilly and punkabilly songs. But did you know Johnny Cash was an activist for the Native Americans? Native […]
Los Angeles is hands down the psychobilly capitol of the U.S. And no self respecting psychobilly fan would visit the west coast without taking in a concert. Luckily for me, my good buddy Rich from Black Cat Entertainment is about as plugged into the scene as you can be and told me about a big […]
When you think of Trinidad what comes to mind? It could be “Carnival” or “where is that?” but chances are it’s not “Punk hotbed”… and you know what, you’d be right. But having been in Port of Spain less than 24 hours (and most of those sleeping), I am here to tell you that this […]
St. Petersburg, Russia: After a rushed trip in Moscow, I was finally starting to get a little used to the time difference and noticed that I usually hit my stride around midnight Russia time (4pm NYC time). Suddenly, in Russia, I was a night owl, cool! St. Petersburg was very different from Moscow and while […]
Yup, I’ve been to jail. Twice! So I guess I’m twice as hard core yo! However, since I cried like a baby the 1st time, I guess that cancels out at least half the hard coreness of it. Both times I was under the legal drinking age and both times arrested for, you guessed it, […]
MONTEVIDEO, URAGUAY – Final Night In South America My month long trip to South America was coming to a close. My laundry, too much, too dirty and me tan,but not TOO tan, very relaxed and maybe, just maybe, getting better at speaking Spanish. Clocking in at 30 days on the dot almost, this had been […]
When I took the boat to Colonia, Uruguay from Buenos Aires, it was a beautiful, sunny crisp day. Quite a contrast to that day two days earlier when it was raining buckets and my trip was delayed due to an ethically challenged and fake “taxi” driver. I was still kicking myself for allowing myself to […]