Mike Baggetta
Steven Garnett has a conversation with Mike Baggetta on the night of a mssv show at Will’s Pub.
Steven Garnett has a conversation with Mike Baggetta on the night of a mssv show at Will’s Pub.
The Dollyrots ended their 2023 tour with a triumphant homecoming show at the Crowbar, in Tampa’s Ybor City.
This week Christopher Long visits his local flea market and comes home with a banger — an early vinyl pressing of the Beatles 1970 classic, Let it Be — for a buck!
The curious and often-neglected horror masterwork Messiah of Evil is again reborn in a terrific new Blu-ray from Radiance Films.
Music For Billionaires (New Focus Recordings). Review by Carl F. Gauze.
During AFI Fest 2023, Lily and Generoso spoke at length with director Radu Jude about his darkly comedic feature, Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World, the winner of the Special Jury Prize at this year’s Locarno Film Festival and Romania’s entry in the Best International Feature Film category for the 96th Academy Awards.
It’s an evening filled with field recordings, vinyl abuse, and time dilation/contraction effects for Julius C. Lacking as he attends a unique event at an upstairs bookstore.
Imported (Kill Rock Stars). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
This week Christopher Long takes another cozy stroll down memory lane, reflecting fondly on first being exposed to the music of Detroit rocker Bob Seger, circa ‘76. Fast forward a couple of lifetimes, and Chris scores a reportedly hard-to-find used LP copy of Night Moves at a local thrift joint for just a couple of bucks. “Come to Poppa,” indeed!
Gasoline Lollipops’ newest single, “Freedom Don’t Come Easy,” is today’s mother lovin’ punk rock folk anthem.
Frank Henenlotter’s gory grindhouse classic Basket Case looks as grimy as the streets of Times Square, and that is one of the film’s greatest assets. Arrow Video gives this unlikely candidate a welcome fresh release.
Despite the Mother’s Day factor, hundreds of fervent, faithful followers still flocked to Orlando’s famed Plaza Live to catch an earlybird set from Jimmy Failla — one of the hottest names on today’s national comedy scene.
Ink 19 readers get an early listen and look at “Cool Sparkling Water,” a new single from Lonnie Walker.
Jeremy Glazier has a bucket list day at a Los Lobos 50th Anniversary show in Davenport, Iowa.
Carl F. Gauze reviews the not-quite one-woman show, Always… Patsy Cline, based on the true story of Cline’s friendship with Louise Seger, who met the star in l961 and corresponded with Cline until her death.
Carl F. Gauze reviews this interesting look at the surprising history and scandalous etymology of jazz, in Weird Music That Goes On Forever, by Bob Suren.
Two new releases from Free Dirt Records use sound and music to tell stories about our history.
A lady Tarzan and her gorilla have a rough time adapting to high society in Lorraine of the Lions (1925), one of four silent films on Accidentally Preserved: Volume 5, unleashed by Ben Model and Undercrank Productions, with musical scores by Jon C. Mirsalis.