Buddy Guy "Skin Deep" solo guitar!!!!
Please enjoy earbender.com's first video exclusive (please share it far and wide) from Buddy Guy!!!!!! earbender
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MLB All Star Game Review
A week later, I'm looking back on the 2008 MLB All Star Game and am happy the whole thing is over. I am very pleased the game turned out so well, because everything else felt like a rip off. The "Fan...
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Goose Gossage's Big Day
"Fearsome and fearless"* Yankee reliever Rich "Goose" Gossage is to be inducted into just about an hour to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY. I wish I could be there! It will be a crowded...
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They Stole Watt's Bass!
...And the rest of Iggy and the Stooges' equipment on Monday morning in Montreal. Their truck was parked at the hotel, and sometime between 6:30 and 7:30am, thieves stole the vehicle, later recovered...
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Usain Bolt hits Beijing hard, Eno/Byrne return
earbender.com has received an unprecedented number of hits over the past few weeks due to the tremendous achievements by Jamaican runners at Beijing combined with the fact that I have written about...
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Sonic Youth Rules the Earth, Closes McCarren Pool
I happened to catch the incredible Sonic Youth at McCarren Pool's final show before the renovation last weekend. The band delivered on its reputation with a set that commenced with two previously...
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Bob Dylan, Muckety and Colossus
With a big release around the corner, Bob Dylan's people have made a song from the new album "Bootleg Series Volume 8: Tell Tale Signs" available as a free zip file. How nice to be able to spread the...
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Daniel Craig is a good James Bond, but there's only one Jon Anderson
Daniel Craig makes an excellent James Bond, and thanks to so many actors playing the part over the years, we are used to turnover and can adapt to new people in the classic role. I definitely believe...
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Yankee Stadium, Jack White with Alicia Keys Quantum of Solace theme
It's been a long goodbye to the old place in the Bronx, and here are my two cents on the demise of Yankee Stadium. I will feel just as bad when Shea goes next week.In my opinion, they should both live...
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Adios Shea Stadium, and "Love for Money" the new video by Willie The Kid...
With Willie Nelson in town following Farm Aid last weekend, and a lot of posts about baseball, I couldn't resist Miss Theda's pitch "don't sleep on this joint... post this up now!!!" in her recent...
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Ray Castoldi, Def Leppard to Perform for NHL Season Openers
Def Leppard, one of the major bands of the 80s "hair" movement, will perform to launch the 2008-9 NHL season on Rocktober 9 in Detroit at the Fox Theatre. Def Leppard have a lot of hits but they are...
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Springsteen at the Super Bowl, Old Dylan Streams A New Bootleg
This week it was announced that Bruce Springsteen, once hailed as "the new Dylan" would be performing during halftime of the Super Bowl. This has become a classic rock slot since Janet Jackson's...
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Big TV tonight
Sites to get you fired up for the debate:KTOO, Juneau has recordings of the 2006 debate between Palin, Halcro and Knowles (which she won apparently). I will never forget their music director Jeff Brown...
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Springsteen in Philly for Obama
"I am glad to be here today for this voter registration drive and for Barack Obama, the next President of the United States.I've spent 35 years writing about America, its people, and the meaning of the...
View ArticleBobby Orr's Knee and 25% OAC
Boston Bruins great Bobby Orr stars in this new commercial from Mastercard. He was a hell of a player, a defenseman who could play intense offense, usually taking the puck the entire length of the ice...
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Sonic Youth "Sensational Fix" Exhibit Opens in Italy
Sonic Youth are the subject of "Sensational Fix," a new "multidisciplinary" exhibit featuring the band's work with various visual artists, designers and musicians curated by Roland Groenenboon and the...
View ArticlePhiladelphia Phantoms and Linda Creed Night
The big game in Philly tonight is not the Dodgers against the Phillies. It will be just across the street as The Philadelphia Phantoms minor league hockey team opens their season, the last to be played...
View ArticleSonic Youth live in Bolzano Italy
Adding a new feature to the earbender blog, the follow-up story with video. Here is a nice clip from the show celebrating the opening of the multi-disciplinary exhibition "Sensational Fix."Can anybody...
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mike watt + the secondmen benefit Friday 10/17
watt hit me off with his flow today, including the sweet picture you see of "sunrise in pedro - october 15, 2008" and a mention of a few gigs coming up. tomorrow, friday 10/15, watt + the secondmen...
View ArticleJim McGuinn Knows Which Way the Wind Blows
In compiling some e-clippings, I ran across this video of WXPN, Philadelphia's Jim McGuinn promoting their event, 885 Essential XPN songs. Jim is host of XPN's YRock, XPN's nighttime programming that...
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