John Shaughnessy brought the news that the Newton Colony Arts Festival, which many local performers played in last year, has been cancelled.”Newton Colony regrets to announce that we are canceling the Festival for this year. Unfortunately, funding we planned on fell through. Thank you for your interest in the Colony. We hope to continue our…

The Tree House crowd is usually sparse from 8:00 – 9:00PM, but last night it was packed. Roz kept his promise of being loud, but I don’t think his plan included getting shocked in the lip three times. I suspect one of two things. 1. His 1963 amplifier puts out some serious juice. 2. His…

Later this month, the Tree House is having an awesome weekend of music. Check out the lineups (I hope I have everyone right. Email me if it’s not!) Friday, August 29th Jason Wheatley Adrien Reju Roz King Sarah Allen Cathy McLeod Saturday, August 30th Ben Garvey Willie Tapps Keith Lewis Dylan O’Hearn If don’t go,…

Collingswood is the place to be on Wednesday nights for hot coffee and great music. Sign up for the Tree House open mic here. If 14 or more people are on the list, there will be a 2 song limit after 9:00PM. Before 9:00 you can play three songs, and if there is time left…

I finally got around to seeing Radiohead. They only play around here every 5 years or so. I remember in 97 they were opening for Alanis (hah) and I definitely wasn’t going to pay to see that. Tweeter isn’t the best place to see a show, but I think Radiohead would sound good anywhere. They…

I’ve had this thing for years, but I finally got around to setting it up. It refreshes the picture every 30 seconds. Don’t worry, you won’t have to worry about seeing anything indecent. Webcam Photo Update: It turns out the crummy software my camera came with only lets me use it for an hour at…

It turns out that Courtney Love is the grand daughter of Marlon Brando. That’s pretty odd, and Courtney Love’s daughter already had interesting genes before this news came out. If you haven’t seen her picture in a while, Francis Bean Cobain looks just like her dad.

Last night Jeanne and I went up to Grape Street to see Reju. They sounded awesome and they played a few songs I never heard before, including a rocking country song Adrien wrote on dare. It reminded me of the time I saw the Damnations (then called Damnations, TX) open up for the Meat Puppets.…

So the White Stripes concert last month was cancelled when Jack White broke his finger. They still haven’t credited Jeanne’s credit card with the money for the tickets and I just read on the White Stripes website that unlike many of the others, new tickets need to be purchased for the Philly show. The biggest…

My primary responsibility as host of the open mic is to make sure everyone gets to play and the night flows smoothly. I don’t think I did a great job last night of scheduling a slot for everyone. The place was packed and we ended up getting 16 people up on stage, but from now…

If you’re looking for something to do tonight, you should definitely check out Reju tonight at the Grape Street Pub. Adrien is also playing at 3 Beans in Haddonfield on Saturday, so check out that if you can’t make it tonight. She recently posted a diary entry on her site.Freedom and individuality are almost synonymous.…

It turns out the Filthy Critic is dead, but not his author, Matt Weatherford. As I mentioned earlier, last Monday a message was posted on Filthy’s website saying,”The Filthy Critic was killed in a bicycle collision late Thursday night. He died the way he lived–wobbling aimlessly in the slow lane.”I was afraid this meant Matt…

Come out to the Tree House tonight to say goodbye to Katie as she heads back to Monmouth. So far the list is filling fast. dogwallet arahSay allenAy Leo craig gaskill ethan cornely Phil Matt Winn Matt Parrish Sign up here if you want to play. Happy birthday to my future mother-in-law!

well, this will be the 2ND time ive chimed in about g love. some friends and i went to the festival peir at penns landing to see g love,311,and something corprate. well to my suprise i liked something corprate,and 311 ive seen before , but it was the first time i saw g love with…

Please say this isn’t true. Today I checked out my favorite movie review site, the Filthy Critic, only to find this message.The Filthy Critic was killed in a bicycle collision late Thursday night. He died the way he lived–wobbling aimlessly in the slow lane.This could be Filthy’s sick way of ending the site and so…

Origivation’s message board has a great thread on how to put together tours on your own.If a bunch of 17 year olds can book their own tour, get in a van and drive, why can’t most of you? I do realize that some bands on here have done it, but the majority of you seem…

I went to Indiefest Thursday night at Club Beyond to see Jason Wheatley. I haven’t been to too many places like Beyond recently (take their virtual tour to see what I mean), so it was a bit of culture shock. Kixx records invited a number of performers from different genres to come play two or…

I mentioned the Courier Post took a whole bunch of pictures at the open mic the other night. This morning I saw a copy of today’s paper at work. Flipping through it I noticed my friends Adam and Joanne made the cover of the South Jersey Scene section.Joanne Gault, 19, of Haddon Heights and Adam…

Stanford University’s Lawrence Lessig mentioned The Phoenix Trap in his blog today in reference to MP3.com’s continued failure. I’ve certainly critized them in the past. Now they’re refusing to cooperate with an increasingly popular and innovative licensing movement called Creative Commons.I can?t describe how depressing this sort of stuff is. There are many in the…

More performers came out tonight than any night since I started hosting the Tree House open mic. Seventeen different musicians, bands, and poets put on great performances for the Collingswood crowd. The Courier Post even stopped by and at the suggestion of my fiance, they took at least 30 pictures of my friends Adam and…