Fulltone’s just released their new Robin Trower Overdrive and it sounds great. Less mid-scoop than their OCD and GT500 (less “modern”) and less 808/Tubescreamer mid-hump than the Full Drive 2 Mosfet.
Last night we all went to Japantown on Sawtelle and rented one of those private karaoke rooms.
Ankur is putting the finishing touches on our private […]

Going into the studio with Adam next week! Vocals, backing vocals and overdubs on top of what we’ve done so far. Adam is fantastic and I feel lucky just to work with him.
Just played a Headstrong Lil’ King Reverb 1×10 which was spectacular. It would have been nice to have a smaller combo on our […]

Anks is headed to Japan for a few weeks to plant the seeds of our Mr. Big-esque future. Which means he and I can’t see the new Harold and Kumar sequel as a Korean/Indian tandem. He threw up a sharp looking splash page on the main site with a few fantastic shots from […]

So a few hours after we closed out at Hotel Cafe I headed to Canter’s.  I ran into El Diablo who gave us our first residency at the Kibitz Room a while back.  About 2am and in walks Anks and his crew.  On our way out I hop into the van with all our gear.   […]

A friend of mine who works at a nice post production studio rented the Culver City Ice Rink for a massive game of broomball tonight.  It consisted of about twenty people taping up some brooms, running around in sneakers and falling on our asses for two hours.  It was the funniest thing I’ve ever fucking […]

This flu was life altering stuff. I’m a shell of the man I used to be.
I was in the mood for some Van Morrison “Wild Nights” so I walked into a Best Buy on Pico. There’s a nice older gentleman who works there and happens to do some kind of music archiving […]

Hotel Cafe (!) 02/15

Hooker
Finding a way home
Bloodburner
Restless Sea
to the eveningstar
foce field
Take no for an answer

Our first Hotel Cafe show went super well. The room was plenty crowded. The green room too between the people and Calamity Magnet’s upgright bass. Come to think of it, I was the only male singer on […]

I was letting off some steam last night driving up PCH and saw that Benny Mardones is playing the Malibu Inn on the 16th.  I really like his song “Into the Night” which he released when I was like two months old.  But growing up along Lake Erie  away from the coastal cities means that […]

Cinefile has three volumes of the Old Grey Whistle Test performances. The show’s Dire Strait’s performance of “Sultans of Swing” is one of the greatest tv performance I’ve ever seen. If you can, stop what your doing and watch these two minutes of Bill Withers and company.

My friend Mike Phirman of the musical comedy duo Hard ‘N Phirm were just featured on a Comedy Central Presents special. Oddly enough we were playing the Derby the night it aired and I missed it. I’ve seen clips of them preforming on Jimmy Kimmel and they are a riot. If you […]