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Steve Albini died today or last night as I type, which is terrible news. I share this in honor of him and everyone else I know who is out there doing their thing until we are stopped. So for me., that means sharing myself as a father, as a partner. As hopefully a freind wiith my art and my drumming stuff. Like this one. FLESH WOUND drum wise is me ripping off Neil Young and Crazy Horse wit a bi...

Brian plays “Bad Contract” by the Magpie

Enough said.

Bob Suren asked me to illustrate a bunch of portraits of famous jazz greats for his brand new book, on the verge of being released from Microcosm Publishing called WEIRD MUSIC THAT GOES ON FOREVER: A PUNKS GUIDE TO LOVING JAZZ. It’s a cool book and a real labor of love with a humorous premise of introducing punk rock types to the world of Jazz, which is a pretty original idea and one I was very...

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Today I was hired by an old Australian buddy named Ross. He went on the 1985 Ill Repute Scared Straight tour, but first: Him and his friend Conn saved up a bunch of money to go the United States to drive all over the place and visit all of the cities that had punk rock scenes. They both got my address, my parents house actually, from an issue of Maximum Rock N Roll. Because I wrote a scene repo...

..play a new song, whose title escapes me.

Live at the Pour House, Raleigh NC. Erik Sugg, (Demon Eye, Lightning Born, Dragstrip Syndicate) Brian Walsby, (Double Negative, Snake Nation, Polvo) Mike DeLoatch, (Mind Dweller, Hot Rats) Bandcamp: themagpie.bandcamp.com/ Facebook: themagpieNC

I interviewed my wife Kristin…we had been talking about doing this for at least two years. Finally. It happened the other day. Kristin is very talented, in a lot of different areas. You can sort of get used to her handing over her latest thing she did and just going, “Wow”. And this happens a lot. Plus, we support each other and talk a lot about what we are going through as far as the freelance...

Tom Lyle lives in New Jersey with both his family and his small record collection and lives a quiet life. But Tom was also the guitarist and main songwriter for the late and lamented DC band Government Issue, who seemingly outlived almost everyone who came out of that town with multiple lineup changes and multiple albums that are all varied and sound great. They had a very high quality across a...

I went down a “DC Wormhole” recently when I discovered how much I liked the new Hammered Hulls album that just came out with Alec Mackaye singing. That led to said wormhole and eventually that included Minor Threat, a lot of Minor Threat. It doesn’t matter how long ago or how old I am now or whatever, that is some good music that still sounds good, and the version of the band I was really fasci...

I might have had to wait years till I got better as an illustrator and cartoonist, but eventually I was able to get some books released of my creative shit. How did it happen? What came out? Who is Bifocal Media? What Melvins cds were included? How did Self Empunishment come to be? All of that and much more is discussed here. You know the drill. Links: To get your own copy of Self Empunishment:...

I met Bob years ago when Double Negative went to Florida and he had put on a show for us. Since then, I had run into Bob during almost all of the Melvins stops in Austin Texas because Bob worked at the venue they always played at. During one of those trips. He gave me his book Crate Digger, which I thought was enjoyable. Bob also is one of those guys with an encyclopedic knowledge of music of a...

Nine songs with Erik Sugg, Mike Deloatch and Brian Walsby

Self Empunishment chat with Chris Murphy of Sloan, part three

The Magpie - “The Sleepy Eye”

The Magpie - “Tried To Hide” (13th Floor Elevators)

Self Empunishment chat with Chris Murphy of Sloan part two

Self Empunishment chat with Chris Murphy of Sloan, part one

The Magpie - “Just One Drop”

The Magpie - “Ceremony For A Fat Lip”

Self Empunishment chat with Rob Crow (Plosivs, Pinback, Heavy Vegetable, Rob Crow’s Gloomy Place)

Self Empunishment chat with Doug Brod, author of THEY JUST SEEM A LITTLE WEIRD

Self Empunishment chat with Denis Belanger of VoiVod

Self Empunishment chat with Jerry A. of Poison Idea

Self Empunishment chat with Coady Willis (Big Business, Melvins, Murder City Devils, High On Fire)

Self Empunishment chat with Todd Swalla (Necros, Laughing Hyenas)

Self Empunishment artist retrospective on David Bowie with help from Raleigh author David Carter

Self Empunishment chat with musician and artist Raymond Ahn of the Hard Ons)