Atlanta friends and enemies! I’m coming down tomorrow night (Saturday, July 15th) to perform on the live revival of Justin Thompson’s show Drop Up Video at the Relapse Theater. Tickets are only $5 and available at the door and for advance purchase here. For those of you who follow Friendlytown Mondays at the Pilot Light, Justin … Continue reading
Category Archives: Music is None of my Business
My Ultimate Blur Set List
I’m a member of a new secret Facebook group (sort of) where we volunteer our fantasy set lists of our favorite bands. Without overthinking it, I put together my ultimate dream set list by one of my favorite bands, Blur. The rule set forth by the group’s founder is 20 song set, 5 song encore. … Continue reading
Shows Tonight and Tomorrow in Knoxville Purple Monkey Dishwasher
It’s been inexcusably long since I’ve written anything here. I thought briefly yesterday about continuing a series I used to do on the old TDCpresents.com where I would embed some video from the MTV online video archive and write out a script for what I imagine the pitch meeting was like for that music video. … Continue reading
Tyler’s 2016 in Music
Like the previous few years, 2016 was an amazing year musically. In my personal life, I realized how few shows I went to, but I’ll chalk that up to a combination of Knoxville not bringing too many acts I sprang at the chance to see, not having an easily available car to go to see … Continue reading
WGTB Playlist from 10 Years Ago
I’ve been working on updating the archive of my podcasts and other radio projects at the TDC Productions online archive. I happened to be copying over these lists today, and it hit me that ten years ago tonight, I was on the air on WGTB in Georgetown with Chris Barylick. Chris now lives and does … Continue reading
Why I call May 4th “International Jawbreaker Day” instead of “Star Wars Day” and you should too (but whatever, don’t let me tell you how to live your life; keep doing what you do)
For the last couple of May 4ths, I’ve taken to Facebook, the mildly popular website that totally hasn’t eviscerated any significance from social activism and everything you post there matters, and posted videos by the cult pop-punk trio Jawbreaker in lieu of posting something about the Star Wars franchise. Some of my critics may call … Continue reading
A Quick Anecdote about “Purple Rain”
I defer to the Generation X for any and all commentary about Prince, but I do have a story I’d like to share if you have a few minutes to read it. One night at the Hot Broth Comedy Open Mic in Arlington Virginia (probably 2010; let’s go with that), Ahmed Vallejos asked me and … Continue reading
