As mayor of mixmeamolotov.com, I’m declaring that today is officially Bernstein Day! Go out and celebrate: take the day off from work and go do something you’ve never done before. Ride your bike to a neighboring state, make a movie, write a song, do some fingerpainting, learn to play backgammon. And don’t fear the haters [...]

Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3, Doug Fir Lounge, Portland, OR, 01 Dec 2007 setlist: (solo acoustic) Ghost Ship / (enter Sean Nelson on harmonies) Alright Yeah / Swirling / No I Don’t Remember Guilford / (enter The Venus 3) Goodnight Oslo / What You Is Is What You Are / Flesh No. 1 (Beatle [...]

Have you heard the tale of Mike Doughty and The Question Jar?? Simply told, Mike blows into your town with his sidekick sideman Scrap Livingston. He sets a jar up at your favorite intimate venue (here it was Mississippi Studios - picture your living room), you show up and write all the questions you’ve been [...]

This is it: MMM’s first podcast! Here’s proof that I can geekvangelize about artists other than Dan Bern and Robyn Hitchcock.
Contents:
Nina Nastasia & Jim White - I’ve Been Out Walking
Rachel Taylor Brown - Upright Man
Justin Power - Needles Spin
Elvis Perkins - It’s Only Me
Malcolm Middleton - A Brighter Beat (acoustic version)
Occasion:
Justin Power is playing a [...]

BERN FOLLOWS HIS MUSE
(written by and apologies to Stan Hall, altered by JBJ)
Giving people exactly what they want is not Dan Bern’s style.
The Iowa-born, New Mexico-assimilated Independent Music Award-Winner could easily, and justifiably, rest on his laurels: dozens of classic songs spread over a 20-year career, a reputation as one of the greatest and most [...]