If Rock’n’Roll were a town, this band would live in the same neighborhood as ZZ Top. But then again, they are from Texas, so for all I know they DO live in the same neighborhood as ZZ Top. Honky is [See the full post…]

Lisa Loven is an ingenue from Norway. Right now in her country she is the star of a national advertising campaign for a food product. She moved to Los Angeles four months ago to become a movie actress. People I [See the full post…]

Venus Envy is an arts organization in St. Louis formed to empower women though the arts. They’ve since expanded to four other cities. Once a year they throw one hell of a party. I attended this two-night event for the [See the full post…]

A. (anonymous) is an independent film made here, in St. Louis, directed by Daniel Bowers. It’s an improvised comedy mockumentary about a support group for anyone with any kind of problem. It’s been shown in festivals around the country and [See the full post…]

The San Francisco International Film Society has a new director, Graham Leggat. He (and about 50 other people, he tells me) put on a spectacular opening night for the 50th Anniversary. It’s the oldest film festival in America and it’s [See the full post…]

Pinebox Serenade hails from Denton, Texas. This performance at Off Broadway was their first appearance in St. Louis. They play a dark, deep country-blues-rock style that can haunt you for days.

St. Louis holds it’s own in the history of the Alt Country movement. Alt Country, also known as Alternative Country is basically a hybrid of traditional country and punk and/or rock and roll. Uncle Tupelo, for instance, was one of [See the full post…]

I felt the need to stretch out a bit artistically this week. So I made a music video … in Tower Grove Park.

Last fall, some crazy cats who hang around the Mad Art Gallery had an idea; do a live radio show the way they were done from the 1930’s to the 1950’s, with a live audience, band and sound effects guys [See the full post…]

The Mad Art Gallery is a unique art space in St. Louis. It occupies a former 1930’s-era art deco police station on the southside of the city. Ron Buechele, the owner, has restored most of the building and kept most [See the full post…]

This is a profile of a young, up-and-coming artist who has a unique style that blends digital photography and traditional techniques. She started creating art as a kind of self therapy and now it’s turning into her career. You can [See the full post…]

Shi-Zheng Chen is a renowned singer, choreographer and director of operas all over the world. I spoke with him at the San Francisco Asian Fim Festival, where his directorial debut feature film, “Dark Matter” played closing night.

The Vultures put on a great show at Off Broadway at a benefit for ? of ? and the Mysterians. If you haven’t heard by now, ? lost nearly all his property and several pets in a tragic house fire [See the full post…]

I always make reports to tell Japanese people what’s going on around SiliconValley. This time, I was at SXSW in Austin Texas, and I’ve realized that I’d been always making reports by myself, and I felt kind of lonely… Through [See the full post…]

The Ottomen are a really fun band that’s been around quite a while. They started in 1996 and have gone on to establish franchises of the band around the world — and former member of the Ottomen has the right [See the full post…]

The Monads play a strange mix of Bluegrass and Punk. Sounds strange huh? It’s true. If you want to know what that might sound like check out this video from a show I caught of them in St. Louis recently.

Johnny O and the Jerks brewed us up a delicious cocktail of drunkin’ blues, tipsy rock-a-billy and stagering punk two weeks ago at Off Broadway, in St. Louis. Check them out on MySpace or at Big Muddy Records.

Robert Scoble talks to Rocketboom‘s Andrew Baron and ReinventingErica‘s Erica O’Grady, at SXSW.

The Firecracker Press is a small boutique design shop in St. Louis, unique because they also print their own work on antique letter presses. Eric Woods, the proprietor, gave me a tour. Much of the design is done using modern [See the full post…]

Pokey LaFarge is a young-up-and-coming musician who plays the Ragtime Blues. I got to sit down with him to talk and he explained what the Ragtime Blues was. Pokey hails from Louisville, K.Y. and was in St. Louis recently to [See the full post…]

Here it is, as promised a second song by The Bloody Hollies. This song is from their new album available on Alive Records “Who to Trust, Who to Kill, Who to Love” (here’s a bonus — you can get a [See the full post…]

Every once in a while I see a band and wonder why they aren’t huge yet. I saw one of these bands last weekend: The Bloddy Hollies, from San Diego, by way of Buffalo, New York. These guys play what [See the full post…]

MOTO is Paul Caporino‘s band from Chicago. This punk rock outfit has been around since 1981 and is still going strong. Paul turns simple, infectiously dumb lyrics into punk rock gold that is somehow reminiscent of The Ramones. This is [See the full post…]

The Gentleman Auction House playing at Off Broadway, in St. Louis, at their big Very Special Christmas Spectacular back in December. This was a big show that got some national press from the likes of Spin Magazine. Also I announce [See the full post…]

Jeremy Mehrle has turned the basement of his suburban St. Louis home into one of the coolest private computer museums you will ever see. He has 74 vintage Apple Macintosh computers impeccably displayed. All of them are fully-functional so you [See the full post…]