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Saturday Night Savannah's

22 Mar

Again I pose the question: See ya there? From today’s Metroland: The Last Conspirators CD-release party Savannah’s, Saturday The Last Conspirators are fronted by former Morons and Ghostrunner singer-songwriter Tim Livingston, who has been making music locally for three decades. The Conspirators are celebrating the release of their new disc, Warparty (Driving Rain Records), the […]

Rumors of my retirement…

20 Mar

…are somewhat premature. See ya Saturday at Savannah’s? SATURDAY MARCH 24THE LAST CONSPIRATORSSavannah’s. 1 South Pearl Street. Albany, NY.I kick things off at 9:30 p.m. Sharp! Conspirators at 10:30. As a bonus, they’re giving away their new CD Warparty. Sweetness. SATURDAY APRIL 14STEP IT UP, CAPITAL!Washington Park Lake House. Madison Avenue, Albany NY.“Honest Weight Food […]

SugarCookie is a band by proxy…

12 Dec
SugarCookieMusicDanSorensen

Sugar Cookie is a band by proxy; none of the musicians on this recording performed in the same room at the same time. Instead, each phase of the recording was transferred between contributors via the internet and US mail. Album producer Dan Sorensen conceived of a unique way to make music with artists he admired […]

Why can't I be yo, fo?

31 Oct
bt at lark tavern

Fourth installment, and another fine evening of Albany songwriters celebrating Albany songwriters. Pics are online courtesy TheHiddenCity.com. (Mr. Matthew Loiacono took the above photo.) Oh yeah: I performed Mr. John Powhida’s “F# Over C” and Mr. Troy Pohl’s “Tornadoes.” (Audio? Soon. Maybe. Tornadoes be damned.) Peace, B.

I'm rockin the M-I-C…

09 Sep
diznee

Why? Because I’m in the mother effin’ H-O-U-S-E. So, apropos of this week’s adventures in TV propaganda, the Bootleg Blog now offers Diznee for download, written and recorded in 2000 for the previously unreleased Tele Sessions. Photo: Jesus’ General.

Bootlegs, studios, news and kids

01 Aug
the new studio

Reporting from the still-in-progress basement studio on: THE STATE OF THE BOOTLEG BLOG: From 1998’s Wafers and Wine EP, I offer downloads of Apartment D and Seachange. Both songs were written for Carl Liss’ first feature-length film. THE STATE OF THE STUDIO: I spent most of my vacation last week fine tuning bryanthomas.com and thehiddencity.com, […]