Pop Geek Heaven

ARI SHINE   After touring relentlessly behind his last album Ghost Town Directory and receiving plaudits from sources like No Depression, Americana UK and Big Takeover, on Sep. 25th Ari Shine will release Songs Of Solomon, his most honest and rugged batch of songs yet. It has also made the Grammy ballot for Americana album of the Year.  “There […]

DOT DASH   Dot Dash is a band from Washington D.C. Terry Banks plays guitar and sings. Bill Crandall plays guitar. Hunter Bennett plays bass and Danny Ingram plays drums. Some of their ex-bands include Julie Ocean, The Saturday People, Youth Brigade, Modest Proposal, Swervedriver, and Tree Fort Angst. So far, they’ve had two albums […]

WANT LIST TRACKER Sometime in the Spring of 2011, I got to messing around with a graphics program and made up a sheet of paper for me track my want lists of ‘stuff’ related to music.  It’s not a work of art but, hey, it works! I, originally, shared this with the fellow music geeks […]

CLEANERS FROM VENUS   When I started Not Lame back in 1994, one of the first batch of CDs that imported for the mail order catalog and web site was from a small label called Tangerine Records, who had a catalog of excellent mod-pop CDs(featuring bands like Squire, the Direct Hits and many others) but […]