Destroyer’s Rubies is, and will probably remain, one of my favorite records of the year, but I’m still, as is often the case with Destroyer albums, not quite sure why. That’s part of the reason I enjoyed hearing NPR’s Weekend Edition on Saturday devoting a full 8 minutes to one Mr. Dan Bejar [...]

The Southgate House in Newport, Kentucky is a fantastic place to see a show. Sitting right on the mighty Ohio River, the “Birthplace of the Tommy Gun” is a living testament to good old-fashioned Prohibition-era American lawlessness. Despite now being surrounded on all sides by evidence of the indistinguishably modern (a Johnny Rocket’s, Barnes and [...]