Can we just all take a moment to give a round of applause to the Free Press. It’s the little independent publication that could, and once again it has shown that it not only gets the caboose up to the top of the mountain, but once there builds a bridge to the next peak [...]

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HEY - WHAT KIND OF COLA WOULD SHASTAKOVITCH DRINK? Shasta. If you’re retching and reaching for a mouse with which to exit this site due to that awful Dad joke, you know it’s that time again - DUMB QUESTIONS/SMART ANSWERS. Yep, that occasional column where we dig deep into our bag of [...]

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OH WHAT THE MOOSEMEAT?! There we were, enjoying a cognac and smoked salmon as equally as the post VP debate spin, when suddenly we were plunged into darkness. DARKNESS. And not the I BELIEVE IN A THING CALLED LOVE JUST LISTEN TO THE RHYTHM OF MY HEART type darkness. NO NO. [...]

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OOOOOOOOOH FIZZLE BIZZLE. You know, in the midst of a truly LOL Vice Presidential vetting disaster, it’s harder than Gary Hart to compete for your attention - and we recognize this. But fortunately, some news that will in no way raise to the DailyKos or Redstate radar has come across our desks and [...]

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CRAP. It’s already Friday. How does that happen? First it’s Sunday and we’re totally ill on the prospect of the return to the punch-card pay-clock, but atleast you’ve got some decent work and a stack of records to write, and then the next thing you know BAM. Friday. And like, [...]

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We just got a note on the DL that tonight’s Free Press Recession Thursday Show at Numbers has been canceled due to “one band calling in sick and another one breaking up.”  Bummer.  Double bummer because Something Fierce was going to play their set in the tiny upstairs room, which is MAYHEM like MILES.  We [...]

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Highlights of being an American: the most powerful and wealthy generation in the history of mankind is retiring and entering the golden years. And they need to buy stuff. It used to be that youth was king and all that, but let’s face it: AARP is going to make more money in the [...]

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Something Fierce is tearing through the humidity like Roy Mata and a Tofu Hoagie.  DESTROY ALL ROBOTS.  Perseph 1 is about to play on the TEXAS HEAT PRESENT BLESSED RELEASE OF THE SHADE OF AN OLD OAK STAGE.  STOKED, cause it’s been quite a while since we’ve had the pleasure.  We can’t quite see from [...]

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The Gold Sounds are on TEXAS HEAT PRESENTS REFRESHING SHADE OF A MIGHTY OAK STAGE, but meanwhile we just had a few words with the hot man of shredding Steven Fierce (Something Fierce) about this and that.  Though their free MP3 Modern Girl EP hit the streets only a few months ago, the trio has [...]

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OH TRIPLE DIP!  Turns out that our friend and yours, Andrew Lee of the Wild Moccasins, is live blogging the fest as well, though from the relative DL of his blackberry.  Get his take of the action on the Live Blog Town website for real.   No one has started playing yet, but CO-PILOT has definately [...]

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