Johnny Strike on Crime interview
Having kicked off in the late sixties on the East Coast, with bands like the Stooges, the American punk wave came to San Francisco late, circa 1976. One...
Zack Kopp
Anti-Friends David Ivar Herman Dune and Jeffrey Lewis (part two)
Something unexpected happened in my conversation with David Ivar Herman Dune, when he expressed an admiration for the darkness of Jonathan Richman. Certainly it was true Richman had never...
Anti-Friends David Ivar Herman Dune and Jeffrey Lewis, Part One: On Bob Dylan
© Jeffrey Lewis I forgot to make mention of the French band Herman Dune in that article, “How I Met Anti-folk”. At first, I thought Herman Dune was...
MSB – “Nope” (2017) review
MSB - Nope (2017) https://brownbass.bandcamp.com/album/nope The appearance of jazz in the early 1900s – with its inconsistency-as-structure whereby uncertain melodic propositions are driven to ideal resolution via brave...
Cindy Lee Berryhill – “The Adventurist” (2017) review
Cindy Lee Berryhill The Adventurist (Omnivore Recordings, 2017) Cindy Lee Berryhill hasn’t released an album since 2008’s Beloved Stranger. Since then, her spouse, Paul Williams, founder of Crawdaddy magazine, has passed away after years of gentle decline in a nursing home, their...
How I met Anti-Folk
© Jeffrey Lewis Anti-folk is among the new breed of authentic, organic counter cultures. Some people call it acoustic punk. It wasn’t until 2004 I decided to explore the genre,...