Ok, so it’s not a Con­cert Review, but I did go to see Anthony Bour­dain last night, and it was a fas­ci­nat­ing expe­ri­ence. It’s hard to describe how some­one could be so snarky and yet so inspi­ra­tional all at once. As the lead­ing pro­po­nent of “Food Porn” (not at all a dirty term. Trust me. […]

Last night (Thurs­day the 17th, so last night if I fin­ish this today. If not, then a few nights ago. Work with me on this.) I went to see Leo Kot­tke at the Para­mount the­ater. I’ve seen him three times before, but I’m going to start with the open­ing act before get­ting to Mr. Leo. Opening […]

Post­script: I actu­ally have been work­ing on this for about 10 days now, as this was the week­end before Easter. Easter week­end I spent 80 miles north of Austin get­ting snowed on. Crazy. That barely hap­pens in Ithaca, much less Texas. I just had the coolest music week­end ever. It all started on Fri­day night, when […]

On Sat­ur­day, March 3rd, I set out for a con­cert I was pretty excited about. The show was Eric Clap­ton in San Anto­nio, and I was going due to the gen­eros­ity of the fam­ily of one of my stu­dents. The spe­cial guest of Clap­ton was a young gui­tarist named Derek Trucks. He’s pri­mar­ily a slide […]

So on fri­day Novem­ber 3rd I embarked to my sec­ond Ben Folds con­cert in a year. I saw him last Novem­ber at Bass con­cert hall on UT cam­pus, and you can read that review here. But tonight’s show was again at Stubb’s. Let’s start with two quick facts about this show: 1) It was cold. Maybe […]

“The older I get, the bet­ter the music feels inside me.” B.B. King So on Sun­day night, I trav­elled down to the Para­mount The­ater in Down­town Austin to catch B.B. King. I’ve seen B.B. at least 3 other times accord­ing to my con­cert his­tory, and I think I’ve seen him at least one other time […]

So on Wednes­day night I drove down to the for­merly SBC cen­ter, now AT & T cen­ter to see what was sup­posed to be Aero­smith and Lenny Kravitz. Lenny was appear­ently sick, so he can­celled at the last minute. I’m guess­ing a reunion with Lisa Bonet, which would be enough to make any man cancel […]

but it’s really not that you can’t see the for­est for the trees you never been out in the woods alone Ben Folds “Phi­los­o­phy” So last night I did some­thing really cool. I went to see one of my cur­rent favorites, Ben Folds, at Bass Con­cert Hall here in Austin. My part­ners for this epic journey […]

Now tick­ets to con­certs and drink­ing at clubs, Some­times for music that you haven’t even heard of. And how much did you pay for your rock’n’roll t-shirt That proves you were there, That you heard of them first? Cake “Rock and Roll Lifestyle” So I went to see one of my Favorite bands tonight. I […]