Imagine a band, a family band, where the singer and guitarist is the dad, and the bassist/backup singer is his 16 year old daughter, and the drummer/ other lead singer is his 11 and a half year old daughter. This …

  It’s always good to step into someone else’s scene. Whitey Morgan is an artist I wasn’t aware of until a few months ago. He is a real-deal honky-tonk king, carefully following in the footsteps of Waylon Jennings and Merle Haggard, …

  Adrian Belew Live at the Lincoln Theater, Raleigh NC 3/15/19  This is the third time I’ve seen Adrian Belew and his band in the past two years or so, and I think I’ve finally realized why I love him so …

Merge Records kicked off their 30th Anniversary celebration season with a special gift for the faithful: a rare visit from Scotland’s power pop paragons, Teenage Fanclub. The beautiful riverside setting had to struggle to keep up with the loveliness the …

Following what happened to The Specials after their 2nd LP, More Specials, the beginning of The Fun Boy Three, and the start-up of The Special AKA, since 1981, is exhausting. Check the Wiki page if you are interested, but …

Who are the Excons? If you live in the North Main area of Greenville, they are our friendly local neighborhood band. This is their second LP and it is a great disc. They went to Echo Mountain Studio in Asheville …

It’s truly difficult for me to review a Bob Mould record. It’s like reviewing your guitar teacher’s music. I don’t know Bob and he never gave me a lesson, but I taught myself how to play guitar listening to Husker …

In reanimating Zub Records, we have re-entered a very different music world than when we wound down in the prior millennium. We are more connected than ever through tools like Facebook and Twitter and this site, but at the same …

        There are only a handful of bands I really want to see that I'll never see live. XTC, The Jam and The Stranglers come to mind. Joe Jackson has also been on that list. For whatever reasons, I never was …

 

 

 

http://www.dominorecordco.com/uk/news/24-10-18/buzzcocks-announce-details-of-40th-anniversary-editions-of-another-music-in-a-different-kitchen-and-love-bites/   BUZZCOCKS: THE GOOD STUFF  Just received in the mail from Domino Records the new reissues of Buzzcocks first two LP’s, Another Music In A Different Kitchen and Love Bites.  These were …

 

 

This blog is about The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine movie soundtrack, released in 1969. It is informed by a Daily Beast article by the excellent writer Colin Fleming. Check it out  https://www.thedailybeast.com/when-the-beatles-let-their-freak-flag-fly  What I get from …

The print Zub Alert served a community ‘zine for us, Adrienne and Steve, to share our enthusiasms for our pop culture discoveries in the old media world. We will continue in that spirit to share our thoughts and experiences for …