Bands & Music

What’s Your Mic Check Song?

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I can rock a shower stall with some tuneage. Ditto commuter solos in my Scion xB, windows rolled up. Public performances, not so much. But I still have the mic check fantasy. You know, it’s a couple of hours before the show and the band members are all on their instruments tuning up and stuff, [...]

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New Playlist for Boxing Training

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One of my super-tough MMA chick friends (who will box with me periodically and who is helping me learn ju jitsu: fist bump Junie!) sent me a few suggestions for refreshing my quickly-getting-tiresome Shuffle playlist for training. Her main additions to my existing soup were: Nine Inch Nails, Head Like a Hole Alice in Chains, [...]

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When My Kids Sing Dirty Rock Lyrics (that they heard from us)

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A local author and podcaster friend of mine blogged recently about her daughter’s first f-bomb. It was a funny read, and I thought she parented quite well through the situation. And it got me thinking about how I felt the last time I heard the Ice happily singing the lyrics to Warrant’s (and Poison’s) “She’s [...]

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Crüefest 2, Raw and Uncut

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I might have guessed when they split the entering crowd into a men’s line and a women’s line for a full-body pat-down that Crüefest might get a little out of control. It was hot as hell, no breeze, the drinking began well before any of the featured bands hit the main stage, and the inhalables [...]

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Poison and Def Leppard Light Up Walnut Creek

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Thank you so much, friend of @ericstroud who had a wedding on the night that Cheap Trick, Poison, and Def Leppard were scheduled to play the Walnut Creek ampitheater. And thank you Eric, for tweeting out your tix when you couldn’t go, great idea! There were a few bumps, however. In the “band drama” department, [...]

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I Don’t Give A Damn ‘Bout My Bad Reputation: Joan Jett Rocks Raleigh

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Downtown Raleigh got a taste of New York City this weekend. The crowd who poured in to see Joan Jett and the Blackhearts was testy and fractious, and security had their work cut out for them escorting the faint, drunk, injured, and belligerent out of the mad crush in front of the stage. I don’t [...]

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I Was a Punk Before You Were

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I was a punk before you were a punk You want some action? I’ll put your ass in traction baby Just that one song, even just that one lyric, made Raleigh’s Downtown Live a huge success. How could anyone raised in the 70′s not love The Tubes? Punk was what was happening, even if it [...]

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Tristan Clopet and the Juice Packs Out Slim’s Downtown

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On Wilmington Street, just between Martin and Hargett, there’s a skinny shotgun bar which during the day will fool you into thinking it’s nothing special. If you go in you can order your vodka Red Bull and carry it through the emergency exit at the back onto a concrete pad tucked between two tall downtown [...]

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Rock Boys

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Saturday Aftershock played Connolly’s in Cary, NC, and since it was an early (7 to 11) outdoor show I took all the boys to see their dad’s gig. This is a fairly rare occurrence for them since most of the Husband’s gigs are very late at night in smoky bars and not ideal for the [...]

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Golden Gloves Training Journal: Day Three

I started the day thinking “I can do ANYTHING for 18 minutes.” That’s nine rounds (and only 3 at a time!) in the Golden Gloves. But my day was a lot longer than 18 minutes. I was under way too much stress, and got out of the Zone. My insulin was all over the place, [...]

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