John P. Strohm's Page

Really thoughtful, favorable review of the ZBs re-issues on Pitchfork this morning: http://tinyurl.com/nvxcag Marvin, are you going to temporarily revise your regard for the publication?

Here's a link to a nice blog write-up about Antenna, written by a DJ from WXRT in Chicago:

http://tinyurl.com/cnxkxm

Again, I apologize - I still can't get the effing hyperlink to work from this computer.

I'm going to keep this short and sweet, because I have a bunch of work to do today; but there's something I've had on my mind since I wrote about the Zero Boys a couple months ago (which article, by the way, is the cover story in this month's Ryder Magazine in Bloomington). I've been thinking about the importance of technical proficiency in musicians.

When I first started playing drums, my goal was to get "good". I used to have arguments with my good pal Harry - also a drummer - about who was t… Continue

Must have something to do with my work computer, but I can never get hyperlinks to show up on MFT. Anyway, here is a URL for an article I posted today on the Know the Music Biz blog on Creative Commons licensing: http://tinyurl.com/cmdyew

Thanks to Ben Deily for this link. This is the first ever Lemonheads video from 1987 for the song Second Chance, from the album Hate Your Friends. Ben is the singer in this one - for those only familiar with the later Lemonheads stuff, on the first three albums Ben and Evan shared the singing and songwriting. This was only a couple months after I joined the band - I joined just before HYF was released but after it was recorded. This was shot in and around Kenmore Square… Continue