Tag Archive for the term: patti smith

Erin and I sometimes tease each other about how it rains or snows almost every night that our band plays. Makes us feel like the 90’s band Garbage with that song, you know? Cuz we don’t mind. Neither should you! Tonight we’re playing with a few other very lovely folks such as Postcards (who have [...]

This is protest music, and when the wave of sorrowful lament and resistance sweeps over you with all its lifting counter melodies and strings there is a water welling in your brain stem effect, the waves of generations of the hopeful heart broken by war and greed, longing to make music and love in peace. [...]

Dear Diary,
“Honestly, I just want to play.” Courtney Love, “Rock n Roll Needs Courtney Love” by Pamela Des Barres, Interview 1994
I’m reading a wonderful collection of essays in a book entitled “Rock She Wrote: Women write about rock, pop, and rap” edited by Evelyn McDonnell and Ann Powers. The quote above is from an essay [...]

I used to be in an all-girls choir and now I’m in an all-girls, old-time, blue-grass jam-band we’re calling the Ladies Auxiliary. I also went to an all-girls high school. I don’t feel like I’ve ever intentionally sought out environments based on gender, and I have good male friends and Elran, but I repeatedly end [...]

More from POp MOntreal 2007, on the POP and POlicy Conference.
Some people, when I’ve mentioned we’ve been covering this, have been surprised to hear there’s a POP-related conference going on. Others were surprised to find out that all the panels on the last day would be free, because maaaybe they wouldn’t have paid 50$ [...]

POp Montreal 2007 - BUck 65.
Before getting Patti Smith pissed at me (fuck fuck fuck, I love her. Oh well.) I saw Buck and Scratch Bastid on a panel with Owen Chapman who is an associate Prof in the same department where I did my masters at Concordia, and a Prof Stern from [...]

Ah, ongoing saga of Pop Montreal 2007. Whew, wearing red today for Burma and running between events and running on the steam of much too much free booze and head spinning between the joy here and the anguish there. Yesterday was fueled by the sweet cocktail hour after Patti Smith’s keynote, at which I had [...]

Pop Montreal begun with a big bang boom with Patti Smith at the Ukrainian Federation where I managed to score the last media spot on the list. Thank goodness! When Patti Smith took the stage, the world suddenly seemed better. When she oppened her poetry book and started reading out of it to a completely [...]

Patti Smith writes marching songs for an anti war art-dreaming army. A Silver Mount Zion, friendly spiral I think from Godspeed you Black Emperor, are almost all pacing strings. Together, tonight they resounded off each other and we waved and shook in reverence. We biked to her and walked in our quiet legions. We didn’t [...]

We posted the call for this Art POP event way back, and now it’s upon us in all the Pop flutter. It’s a show going down at Red Bird and it’s about birds…. Vanessa Yannow is involved as well, and you can also find her at Puces POP this weekend selling her fine wares. But [...]