guest post - Will Dailey

You wanted to hear from some of our musicians, so here you go! Will Dailey gets the ball rolling:

It is usually this time of year that my mind begins to yearn like a sad dog for the opposite end of the season cycle. A big snow fall and stopped everything, calming us all down for 6 hours. Then that same snow fall squeezes into tighter lanes. It melts and leaves sand, dirt and snow. The major holidays pass by and the cold just becomes the cold. It is in one of those aching moments, as I suit up with an air of protest, that I start to dream of the summer. Three things come to mind. The first being a certain lake in Maine. The second is a sunburn and the thirds is the sand in my shoes from loading into a gig at the Beach Comber.

-Will Dailey

Free Bim Skala Bim!

Not like Free Tibet. Dan's out of the country, but we assume he's allowed to come back anytime. Here's a little somethin' he sent us cause we told him y'all missed Bim:

Heres a Bim news flash......we found several unrealeased tracks of really rare Bim soul ska and calypso tracks we recorded after the krinkle sessions ....find free mp3s at http://www.facebook.com/l/dfab6;nimbit.com

Happy awesomely gray November day!

Rock on.

Kay Hanley = Fashion Boston

Speaking of bands and fashion, behold Kay Hanley.

(click on the picture to go to the magazine)

Band Fashion - David Lowery

A couple years ago I wrote an article on band fashion because really, who doesn't want to read about band fashion? Having just been to the Cracker show at the Comber, I asked David Lowery first. This is what he said:

I have to credit some of my fashion sensibility to my girlfriend/manager, Velena Vego.

She has been a concert promoter for 18 years and is also a tri-delt. So rock with southern prep.

I'm half English and southern. So the two of us fit together in some way.

For years I dressed better off stage, or at least more conservative offstage. The grunge years were very difficult for me. I dont like baggy clothes.

I am secretly a mathematician who happens to be in a rock band. Hence the underlying collegiate look.

The pseudo western suede jacket was from the vintage store behind the 40 watt. The plaid tie and belt from an urban outfitters.The green gingham shirt was from the old navy in Cambridge. 8 bucks.

And how can you ever go wrong. with classic black converse.

Here's the pseudo western suede in action (5/28/08)