Let’s kick this weeks column off with a brand new video by guitarist Jon Gomm. This dude has worked his ass off to get where he is and deserves all the publicity he gets, which is a damn lot. Brand new and hot off the presses. If nothing else, Gomm is famous for spitting in Simon Cowell’s eye.
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Frank Gutch Jr: My Morbid But Sanguine World, Part Deux; Plus Notes…
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Alice Texas, Allies, Brandos, Dave Bidini, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Frank Gutch Jr., Fred Cole, Indie Artists, Indie Music, James Blonde, Jon Gomm, Ken Stringfellow, Lisbee Stainton, Mickey Rooney, Mimi Schell, music, music videos, Oscar Blues, Phoebe Bridgers, radio, Records, Rheostatics, Royal Wood, Sage Run, Sean Kelly & The Samples, segarini, Singing 12-Pack, Steve Riihikoski, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Sweet Home Oregon, Tarney Spencer Band, The Collectors, The Wailin' Jennys, Thomas Hunter, Tim Vesely, Tom House, Violet Archers, Winterpills on November 28, 2017 by segariniFrank Gutch Jr: O Canada: A Nod to The Great White North— (and more of them goddamn notes)
Posted in Opinion with tags bill jackson, Bob Segarini, bobby gottesman, Caitlin Canty, Chloe Albert, Darrell Vickers, Dave Bidini, David Olney, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Frank Gutch Jr., Gowan, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Jaimie Vernon, Jane Gowan, Jubal Lee Young, Laurie Biagini, music videos, On a Cold Road, Pete Fidler, Pursuit of Happiness, Records, Rheostatics, Roxanne Tellier, Sergio Webb, Shade, Sloan, South of Bloor, Steve Young, The Extras, Thor, Tim Vesely, Toby Swann, Tragically Hip, Violet Archers on September 2, 2014 by segariniI am a lost Son of Canada. I must be. I love Canadian bacon, though bacon it not really be (except maybe technically). I love Jennifer Dale, an actor who deserved much more than she has been afforded, respect-wise (I reveled in her work on Canadian TV and film during Comcast’s all-too-short span of including CTV and CBC on their cable lineups in the ’80s). I love Due South, one of the most creative and funny-on-so-many-levels series TV has ever created (the transition of Ray to Ray— David Marciano to Callum Keith Rennie— a work of pure writing craftmanship).
Frank Gutch Jr: A Video Retrospective…..
Posted in Opinion with tags Dala, DBAWIS, dixie bee-liners, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Frank Gutch Jr., Green Pajamas, Greg Laswell, hymn for her, Incurables, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Jon Gomm, Laurie Biagini, Lisbee Stainton, Mark Haney, Maxi Dunn, music, Neko Case, No Small Children, Ophelia Hope, Paige Anderson & the Fearless Kin, Records, Research Turtles, Rita Hosking, The Luck of Eden Hall, Vinnie Zummo, Violet Archers on October 8, 2013 by segariniIt’s called introspection, sports fans. We all feel it every once in awhile and I have been under its spell for the past week and the result has been a total lack of perspective and thus, no cohesive idea for a column. I don’t know why it happens but I do know that it is indiscriminate, that it is sometimes a struggle to even look at the blank page without it beating you to a mental pulp. For myself, the one thing I fear beyond misspelling a musician’s name is the inability to write at all and we are all under deadline, the scourge of any supposed journalist. In the movies, the reporter is always able to crank out a barnburner of an article at the last second, saving his/her job and possibly the future of the newspaper itself. Well, that’s Hollywood, folks, but it does give you an idea of what it is like to produce under pressure.
Frank Gutch Jr: O Canada! You’re Music To My Ears, Part Deux! Another Look at New Canadian Music Really Worth Hearing….. Steve Young and Jubal Lee Young Play Eugene….. Jon Gomm and Canada….. and NOTES!!!
Posted in Opinion with tags Buxter Hoot'n, Dala, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Eric Corne, Frank Gutch Jr., Indie Music, J.D. Souther, Jon Gomm, Jubal Lee Young, Laurie Biagini, Lester Quitzau, Lisbee Stainton, Mena Hardy, Picture The Ocean, Poco, Redgy Blackout, Rheostatics, Sean Kelly, Shade, Steve Young, Susanna Hoffs, Tim Vesely, Violet Archers, Xprime on July 7, 2012 by segariniA number of months ago I wrote about Canadian music here on DBAWIS. That column included mentions of The Dementians, Laurie Biagini, Lisa O’Neill, Eric Corne, Shade, White Light Machine, Lester Quitzau, and Redgy Blackout. There has been a lot of water under the bridge since then and Canada, like every other country in the musical world, is cranking more music out by the hour, it seems, and good music it is. It is funny, but when I write about music in the States, it seems like (and I know it is only in my head) I am writing about the obvious. Canada, though, is another world and an adventure I so enjoy experiencing that I am going to take a little mental break and update you on a few of those listed the first go-round and break a little ground with a handful of artists from the Far Northlands about which/whom I have not yet written. Much.