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Guest Column: Blag Dahlia - Leave Your Phone At Home
Posted in Regular Columns 2 weeks ago
Blag Dahlia is the singer for the Dwarves and host of RadioLikeYouWant.com, a weekly podcast. He is the author of two novels: NINA and Armed to the Teeth With Lipstick. Leave Your Phone At Home I inherited Michael Jackson’s hyperbaric sleep chamber, so I myself am not getting older. But I’ve heard that the road can be tough on old folks (and young ones, too) so SPB has asked me to say a few words about touring through your twilight years. There are many things I could suggest about agents, promoters, travel bureaus and the like, but I’ll get straight to the point. Never have anything resembling a stable relationship if you play music. Since we rarely get paid for our work the only thing musicians actually get for their labors is sex. Without it life on the road is a continuous stream of bad music and retarded people you have to pretend to like. It’s unlistenable opening bands, pushy stage managers, Cro-Magnon doormen and coat check girls who…
Marc Euvrie (The Eye of Time)
Interviews
SPB was recently presented with the opportunity to talk with Marc Euvrie, the man behind the excellent album The Eye of Time. Unfortunately, your writer lives in Vermont, a…
Larry Livermore
Interviews
The phrase "elder statesman" doesn't really feel appropriate for the punk scene, but people like Larry Livermore are the closest thing we have to it -- founder of Lookout Records, frontman, columnist, blogger, and now, curator. Larry is teaming up…