Last night I headed into the city to watch my friend [munk] perform what he was calling his final concert. I had mixed feelings, but I knew we were in for one hell of a show.

As I walked to the venue, [munk] pulled up beside me and I jumped in his car to head over […]

Last night I got to see one of my all time favorite musical artists perform in a small and intimate concert. That artist is Allison Crowe.

I don’t remember how I first discovered Allison, but I’ve been playing her on Accident Hash ever since. Her voice is pure passion and oh so amazing live. I tell […]

I’m listening back to Accident Hash #269 which features Tom Acousti’s set from my house concert from Friday. Perfect writing music this morning.
You can see the show notes here or download the MP3 directly.
Really looking forward to getting some video out from the night as well. That is going to be fun to see. I […]

On Sunday my buddy Matthew came over for dinner now that he is living in the Boston area. Of course, the kids made a special request for him to play something on the keyboard in the basement and he was nice enough to oblige.
Pardon the mess. Earlier in the day we had 10 nine year […]

This past weekend found us in Portland, Maine at the Portland Lobster Company enjoying good food, cold beer and live Mitch Alden. Today’s One Guy’s Thoughts features one of the songs Mitch performed. In this case the Now is Now classic “Paintbox.” Click on his photo to watch the video.

If clicking on the picture doesn’t […]

Last night we watched the movie Bridge to Terabithia as a family. We ate cookie dough and piled onto the couch to watch it. I knew the kids wanted to see it which was the main reason I rented it.
But, as I watched the movie I quickly began to realize this was NOT the movie […]

Yesterday found me in a pretty hard funk, but I knew that the afternoon would wipe that out.
Myself and thirty or so other people gathered at Chris Penn’s house for a special backyard house concert from Matthew Ebel. There were burgers and smoked pork from the neighbors. Kids running around with popsicles. Equipment that […]

Have you heard the utter crap version of the theme song that is going out with the Transformers movie? If not then don’t bother.
The guys in Black Lab heard it and thought it sucked as well. But, in true new media fashion they didn’t just sit around and complain about it. They went into the […]

BinaryStar Music is one of the true indie labels out there who I’ve gotten to know through podcasting. I love the guys and their approach to everything. I can’t wait to meet them later this year finally face to face and share a few frosty ones together!
They just let me know that the new album […]

I have always been a lover of hot wings. I still try to go to Wings Express in Waltham whenever I can since we could have lived off of those sometimes when I was in college.
But, this post doesn’t have to do with the honey barbecue variety, but rather the virtual variety.
Read all about Matthew […]

The next concert at the Dirty U-Turn Cafe has been announced and this one promises to be another fun one!

Matthew Ebel and I thought it would be fun to do it on April Fool’s Day. The name as you’ll see says “FOO” for the reason that the day before Random Foo Pictures will be filming […]

I just got off the phone with David McMillin. I’m still grinning from ear to ear.
Sure, it was labeled as an interview, but it was so much more like a chat then anything else and that is what was great about it. We have yet to meet up in real life yet, but I’ve been […]

No, this is not some profound post or anything like that. The subject is the title of the new not-quite-yet released CD from my good buddies Now is Now.
Mitch Alden is the lead singer and creative force behind this band. (pictured here with wife Dylan on the set of the music video we shot for […]