Speakers are Speaking in Code . . .

Went with the family to see Doc Watson play at the Woodland Park Zoo last night. The zoo hosts concerts featuring some pretty great mid-level touring bands every summer on the North Meadow , and, since we live a block away, we go to most every show. It's Read More...

From WilcoWorld : "Jeff Tweedy and Stanford Law School professor Lawrence Lessig will discuss their opinions regarding file sharing, free culture, and the arts. Lessig wrote the 2004 book Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Read More...

Slobberbone is (was) a terrific band from Denton, Texas. Sort of alt.country ( whatever that is ) I suppose. Or straight up loud rock. They've stopped regularly at the Tractor in Seattle and I've seen them several times there. They played their last show Read More...

Charlie "Yardbird" Parker died 50 years ago this week. I was first turned on to bebop and to Bird in the mid eighties at a dive bar in Kansas City MO called Milton's. I didn't know then that it was a legendary part of Kansas City Jazz History; I just Read More...

100 or so of us saw Bettie Serveert play the Crocodile in support of their new album "Attagirl" Tuesday night. Wow. These guys have always been great, and they keep getting better with every album and tour. They brought along their sampler/keyboard guy Read More...

Have you ever felt like you were seriously out of touch? Like what was important to you wasn't important to those around you and vice versa? Like a walking anachronism? Well I have. While everyone around me seems to have caught Halo Fever I've been quietly Read More...