I am preparing a set list a week and a half prior to our show at the Mint on the 20th.  Here’s why:

This will be our first show since returning to LA from our first big national tour.
It’s not every day a promoter in this city offers you a primo Saturday night 9:30 showtime.
I’ve recently watched […]

I’ve just received this message on the band’s myspace:
“ok fellas, i dig the music but i;m freaked out by the fact that my name is kyle beswick (louisville, ky variety of beswicks) i went to high school at seneca high school and our mascot was the redhawk. care to explain………i’m wiggin out.”

Turns out he was […]

I went to the Viper Room last night to see Bigbang perform.  They’re a trio from Norway who’ve just moved stateside after touring with the Racantours last year.  My friends have been talking up their live show and they got it done.  Oystein, their frontman, played with a slide on one tune and I thought, “Hey, that might be fun […]

This past summer our tour lead us through Omaha for a night.  We drove to a nearby Cracker Barrel. When we walked in we saw a wooden sign with a paragraph of text describing the company’s policy of serving all races equally.  The band and I thought that was odd, but hey, we were in Omaha and maybe […]

Man I love McDonald’s and Monopoly is back.  Today I’ve collected Illinois and Indiana Avenues, which means I’m a Kentucky away from winning ten Gs.  I’ve also collected a pair of light purples in States and St. Charles Pace which brings me close to a grand.  All I need is Kentucky, or Boardwalk to go with […]

 Seneca Hawk’s first Los Angeles show since returning from our national tour is October 20th at The Mint in West Hollywood.  For the past month I’ve been in album preparation mode, arranging and selecting keepers from nearly thirty potential songs.  So when it came to playing live I’ve been another planet.  But when a promoter offered Colin, our […]

   
New shirts are in!  We sold pounds of the new colors on the tour and now we’re selling them on our website.  Thanks to my sis Tanya for modeling the new shirts when we toured through Buffalo.

Yes, today the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced John Cougar Mellencamp among its nominees for the Class of 2008. Johnny Coogs, as I like to call him, is one of my favorite songwriters, period.
Need I remind you: . . .Mellencamp became the first artist since the Beatles to have two simultaneous Top […]

Anks and I were driving through the city and saw a license plate that read “ORC HUNTER.” We might change our band name to ORC HUNTER provided I get this guitar.

My good friend Phil Hurley of country rockers Stonehoney told me to meet him at Spaceland a few weeks ago.  We were checking out Oliver Future, who had just played on KCRW that morning.  Phil introduced me to his friend Adam Lasus who produced Oliver Future’s new record, which sounds fantastic. Adam also produced Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s debut album, which Pitchfork gave a […]