So tomorrow, August 3rd, there will be a guest post by writer, Caleb Ross, promoting his debut novel, Stranger Will. Caleb is an awesome writer. And from what I’ve read of Stranger Will so far (about 40% through it) it’s an awesome ride. You should order it. And then tomorrow, you should read his...
Silver & Gold – Neil Young If you want to get technical, the 2000s for me started in downtown Buffalo, NY. I was in pleather pants and a long-sleeve purple velvet shirt, smack dab in the middle of 18,000 people at a Barenaked Ladies concert. I was neither drunk nor high, despite my choice...
Towards the end of 2009, while reading Nick Hornby’s collection of essays called “Songbook”, I got the idea to write a series of essays revolving around music, or more specifically, the albums that meant the most to me in the first decade of the 2000′s. Actually, that’s not exactly accurate, the albums I was...
I started work on this website in October 2004. At the time I was sitting in the lobby of the University Center at Edinboro University. Watching some Michael Moore documentary. Thinking of ways to help promote my first novel. Payday. The one I hadn’t finished yet. A website seemed a good enough idea. ...
This is a guest post from Caleb J Ross, author of the chapbook Charactered Pieces: stories, as part of his ridiculously named Blog Orgy Tour. Visit his website for a full list of blog stops. Charactered Pieces: stories is currently available fromOW Press (or Amazon.com). Visit him at http://www.calebjross.com. Music is a way to...
Supergroups are all the rave this decade. Velvet Revolver. Audioslave. The Raconteurs. Chickenfoot. Next in line are the Monsters of Folk: Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst, super-producer Mike Mogis, Retro-Nuevo troubadour M. Ward, and My Morning Jacket front man Jim James. If the gold standard is the Traveling Wilburys—and it is—the Traveling Wilburys they are...
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