I climbed into the jalopy and pointed it downtown. Destination: HochsteinMusicSchool. You’d think that’d be relatively simple; drive to show, dig show, split. The daily bustle ‘n’ grind complicates the whole procedure but that just makes the music that much sweeter. I dodged the kamikazes and pot holes on Lake Avenue, just scraping by a […]
Atomic Swindlers
The paper trail
The paper trail Call it human resources Gannett-style. By the time staff at the Democrat and Chronicle learned they were getting a new publisher, the previous one, David Hunke, was already in Detroit, where he’ll be leading the venerable Detroit Free Press. Gannett obtained the Freep from Knight Ridder, another giant newspaper chain, in an […]
Back to the future
The four members of the Atomic Swindlers who gathered on a recent evening to talk about their new album are no strangers to CD releases. Different combinations of them have played in New Math in the early 1980s, Jet Black Berries in the mid 1980s, and the Raw MaGillys in the 1990s. “If we’d made […]






