Well, old friend, it's been five years now. The whole of the pandemic has come and gone. The horrors of the first Trump presidency passed, the world got better for a while, but we are dreading the impending second one. Writing about you on this platform seems fitting, as this is where we first connected over twenty years ago, though you've ( Read more... )

The Summer of Sisters may be the Summer of Puppy as well. Scored a ticket to see Skinny Puppy in San Francisco on the 28th the other day. The before I got to update the calendar, they just announced another show the night before. So TWO Skinny Puppy shows, back to back! Also, a little birdie tells me that there may be a third ( Read more... )

... keeps running later and later into the fall! In addition to the London/Madrid leg, there's a couple new events. Catching NOLA's first industrial music festival, Dark City Fest, then The Church shows up a couple days later ( Read more... )

'20 Ch. Haut-Bages x2
'18 Ch. Nenin
'18 Ch. Ducru-Beaucaillou (100 pt!)
'17 Ch. Cantenac-Brown
'17 La Croix Ducru (second label of D-B) x3
'15 Ch. Leoville-Barton
'15 Ch. Brane-Cantenac
'15 Ch. Faugeres
'15 Ch. Lascombes x2
'15 Ch. Lynch-Bages
'15 Ch. Ducru-Beaucaillou
'10 Ch. Ducru-Beaucaillou

So the Summer of Sisters is getting a great coda. Instead of riding back down to NOLA from Nick Cave, I'll be riding down to Orlando to hop a flight to London for two more Sisters shows. Then a side trip to Madrid to see the statue of an ancestor of mine and catch another Echo & the Bunnymen show while I'm there ( Read more... )

Found a Sick New World ticket for not much more than face value plus the fees originally charged. The tradeoff is I cant ride out to Vegas because the timing between The Cure on the 10th and Sick on the 13th is cutting it too close. So I'm flying to Vegas and renting a bike there to go to LA and back, then flying home ( Read more... )

The summer of Goth is taking a Sludge swing. Just added EYEHATEGOD and Goatwhore here in NOLA, 7th April. Adding Nick Cave balances it back out tho ( Read more... )

well it's kinda growing like Audrey in "Little Shop of Horrors." 68 tracks, five hours, forty. I mean, if I'm going to be spending 80+ hours on a motorcycle, I might as well have some huge playlists, right? As you can probably tell, it's divided up into the 80's, the 90's and then the industrial/dance tracks ( Read more... )

Day or so after seeing The Cure here in NOLA, I'll be hopping on the Harley for an epic 4000 mile road trip. Catching Sisters of Mercy in Vegas, then LA for Cruel World Festival, then back to Vegas for Punk Rock Bowling. There's about 8 days of slack time in there, and I managed to work MGM for seven nights of comped rooms on the strip ( Read more... )

So this year so far I'll be seeing New Order, Ministry, The Cure, The Damned, probably Sisters of Mercy, but the Bauhaus tour got canceled because Peter Murphy hasn't figured out he's too old to be a functional addict now.