http://www.barflies.net/ Barflies.net 4.0 - More than Just Music - Life, the World, and ... en Copyright 2012 Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:01:01 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.21-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss "Best Of" has never really applied to me. Here are my five favorite releases of 2011. They were fairly easy to compile because they were the ONLY new releases that I acquired in 2011. Okay, there were a couple more... http://www.barflies.net/2012/01/record-weirdo---7.html http://www.barflies.net/2012/01/record-weirdo---7.html music Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:01:01 -0800 Happy Holidays!... http://www.barflies.net/2011/12/a-punk-charlie.html http://www.barflies.net/2011/12/a-punk-charlie.html music Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:18:12 -0800 I guess Journey had it wrong.... http://www.barflies.net/2011/09/stop-believing.html http://www.barflies.net/2011/09/stop-believing.html life Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:30:35 -0800 Randy Rogers (of the Randy Rogers Band) at last night's sold-out show at the Troubadour. Reckless Kelly co-headlined, and Micky and the Motorcars opened, making for a solid four and a half hours of Texas country goodness. RRB and... http://www.barflies.net/2011/08/the-livers-of-s.html http://www.barflies.net/2011/08/the-livers-of-s.html music Sat, 20 Aug 2011 09:12:51 -0800 I was in Phoenix, AZ last weekend. I hadn't been there in a long time. When did The Valley of the Sun get annexed by California? I'm not saying it's good or bad, I'm just saying it. Close to... http://www.barflies.net/2011/08/record-weirdo---6.html http://www.barflies.net/2011/08/record-weirdo---6.html geek Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:09:07 -0800 Matador On Velvet, artist and date unknown I paid 76 cents for this beauty. One ruthless art critic (my wife) described it as "hideous" and suggested that it would look much better on the wall of my den/studio/man-cave than... http://www.barflies.net/2011/08/art-appreciatio.html http://www.barflies.net/2011/08/art-appreciatio.html art Wed, 10 Aug 2011 08:44:57 -0800 Following the demise of Cross Canadian Ragweed, lead singer Cody Canada formed a new incarnation of Oklahoma music with a band called The Departed, featuring his brother-in-law and former CCR bassist Jeremy Plato, guitarist Seth James, drummer Dave Bowen,... http://www.barflies.net/2011/07/the-new-boys-fr-1.html http://www.barflies.net/2011/07/the-new-boys-fr-1.html Sun, 24 Jul 2011 20:53:26 -0800 http://www.barflies.net/2011/07/the-dollywood-b.html http://www.barflies.net/2011/07/the-dollywood-b.html music Sun, 24 Jul 2011 20:51:01 -0800 When I was a kid, my dad would occasionally drag my brother and me to a train museum out in the middle of the desert. Next to the train museum was the saddest zoo in the world. The only... http://www.barflies.net/2011/07/bob-dylan-does.html http://www.barflies.net/2011/07/bob-dylan-does.html music Fri, 22 Jul 2011 10:37:30 -0800 Just a few years ago, Josh Abbott was learning how to play the guitar. Earlier this month, he played to 15,000 fans in Austin, all of whom knew every word to his single, "Oh, Tonight." Last night, he brought... http://www.barflies.net/2011/07/josh-abbott-ban.html http://www.barflies.net/2011/07/josh-abbott-ban.html music Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:57:03 -0800 The Zoo Music series at the ABQ Bio Park continues. Big Sandy even wrote a little ditty called "Boppin' at the Bio Park" to mark the occasion. Sandy displays his super-power of staying cool in 100 degree weather. Things were... http://www.barflies.net/2011/07/the-big-sandy-a.html http://www.barflies.net/2011/07/the-big-sandy-a.html music Sun, 10 Jul 2011 17:10:58 -0800 Jason Isbell at the Troubadour earlier tonight. Formerly of the Drive-By Truckers, Jason's new band is the 400 Unit, which is named in honor of a psychiatric ward in a Florence, Alabama hospital. Perhaps that's why they closed the... http://www.barflies.net/2011/06/a-good-kind-of.html http://www.barflies.net/2011/06/a-good-kind-of.html music Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:14:13 -0800 Notice the hands over the ears - it's good to know that rock and roll can still offend. The cliche "If it's too loud, you're too old" is too obvious here. What comes to my mind is "Why did... http://www.barflies.net/2011/06/the-blasters-at.html http://www.barflies.net/2011/06/the-blasters-at.html music Sat, 18 Jun 2011 17:37:08 -0800 Nick 13 at the second of two sold-out shows at the Troubadour this weekend in celebration of his solo country album. He's on tour now, but you can see Tiger Army at the Orange County Fair on Saturday, July... http://www.barflies.net/2011/06/nick-13.html http://www.barflies.net/2011/06/nick-13.html music Sun, 12 Jun 2011 21:52:01 -0800 Every music geek that ever learned to type has long ago soaked their t-shirts in drool about the albums "Meat Puppets II," "Up On The Sun," and others from the Meat Puppets SST golden era, so I won't bother.... http://www.barflies.net/2011/06/meat-puppets-in.html http://www.barflies.net/2011/06/meat-puppets-in.html music Sat, 11 Jun 2011 10:08:38 -0800