This post doesn’t actually have anything to do with the Bongzilla track “Champagne and Reefer” from their 2005 album Amerijuanican (or with Muddy Waters‘ original version, for that matter), I just had it stuck in my head as I often do. Miss that band. Anyhoo, as you can see above, The Obelisk received a whopping […]

Still very much in recovery mode from this past weekend, I made my way following a school obligation into NYC to catch Virginian bass/drum outfit Akris play at The Cake Shop. I planned on it being a kind of subdued evening — not much fanfare around the show, but just an excuse to get out […]

The carton from which Lo-Pan frontman Jeff Martin is drinking in the candid picture above reads “Boxed Water is Better.” There’s a life lesson in there somewhere, but mark my words, I have no clue what it might be. After bolting from a school obligation in Newark and stopping only to grab sushi takeout on […]