Earlier this month, Spin announced that it is moving most of its album reviews to Twitter. Music writing is getting shorter, not longer, and yet the 33 1/3 Series, which has the gall to publish entire books on albums that aren't even current, soldiers on. There are 85 installments in print n ... More >>
My pal Dave runs a website called FiveChapters.com, which every week publishes a five-part serial story from noted authors. This week, however, the site is breaking from the norm and publishing five short stories, one per day -- including a new piece by Joe Pernice. Go here to read Monday''s story, ... More >>
Live a Little (Ashmont)
Neither meeting Sonic Youth nor covering seminal '80s songs fazes Grant-Lee Phillips.
Saturday, December 10; The Pageant (6161 Delmar Boulevard)
We have an intervention for An Angle, talk baseball and Moz with Joe Pernice, and learn some rock rules by which to live
Keep your theories to yourself -- Brendan Benson is just a singer in a rock & roll band
Joe Pernice is not only one of the great secret practitioners of pop, he's also about to become a published novelist
After September 11, some new songs just don't sound the same
Friday, Aug. 10; Off Broadway
