Brooklyn Bugle

  • Home
    • Submit A Link
    • About
      • Site Credits
  • Tell the Bartender
  • The Struggle Bus
  • Noise the Column
  • Existential Stuff
    • Books
      • Brooklyn Bugle Book Club
    • Music
  • Advertise
  • The Way We Hear Music Has Changed. Now Change it Some More.

    A lot of buzz out there about Taylor Swift abandoning Spotify (what a very odd name – Taylor Swift…

    November 5, 2014
  • Acker Bilk and Instrumentals of Exquisite Melancholy

    In his masterpiece The Tin Drum, author Gunther Grass writes of a character who is able to “turn feelings…

    November 4, 2014
  • The Beastie Boys and Rick Rubin (second from left) around the time this story takes place.  In 1985, Rick wanted me to temporary take his role as DJ in the band.

    1985: I Turn Down My Chance to Become a (temporary) Beastie Boy

    In the middle of 1985, the Beastie Boys were on the precipice of breaking big. The “Rock Hard” single…

    November 3, 2014
  • Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East” by Scott Anderson

    Notice the title of this book: it’s not “Lawrence of Arabia” (that’s a movie) or “Seven Pillars of Wisdom”…

    October 31, 2014
  • Tell the Bartender Episode 46: Halloween Spooktacular!

    Listen to Episode 46: Halloween Spooktacular! Download From iTunes Here In this Episode: David Lawson joins Katharine to tell the story about, well, the worst thing to happen while leading a “Ghost Tour” in a graveyard in Boston. And Lauren Hennessy is back to talk about a scary thing that happened while in a lighting booth for a […]
    (via Tell The Bartender)

    October 30, 2014
  • New York City and Taylor Swift (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Change)

    I do not blame Taylor Swift for embracing her role as the new face of New York City. I…

    October 30, 2014
  • Paul O. Zelinsky to appear at Greenlight Books on Saturday (11/1)

    On Saturday, November 1, at 11 AM, Paul O. Zelinsky, the beloved children’s book author and illustrator and Brooklyn…

    October 29, 2014
  • 140730092338-eitm-gupta-ebola-symptoms-origins-00011224-story-top

    Talking Ebola, Politics and Pathogens

    Please explain this to me. If a doctor is willing to go to West Africa to help Ebola victims, what the HELL is the big deal about a few weeks of Quarantine?

    October 28, 2014
  • Scott Walker

    Scott Walker and Sunn O))): The Future of Rock’n’Roll

    Yesterday, we were talking about how we may be entering the Sunset Years of conventional Western Pop. I posited…

    October 28, 2014
  • The Myth of Western Pop Supremacy: Prologue to a Scott Walker/Sunn O))) Review

    There is a gorgeous arrogance to the idea of Western Pop Music, a truly child-like presumption that our kind…

    October 27, 2014
Older Posts
Newer Posts

Recent Posts

  • Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “It’s Not Yet Dark” A Memoir by Simon Fitzmaurice
  • Camp, crafts. Crafts, craft beer. All at the Transit Museum July 26
  • Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “The Crossing” A Novel by Andrew Miller
  • Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “The Egg and I” by Betty MacDonald
  • Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “A Word for Love” A Novel by Emily Robbins

Recent Comments

  • max on Die Toten Hosen: The World’s Biggest Punk Rock Band
  • Joe Foy on The Thomas Edison of College Rock
  • D-man on Dave Grohl is Killing Rock ‘n’ Roll, Long Live Rock ‘n’ Roll: Prologue to a Manifesto
  • Tim Hartman on Dave Grohl is Killing Rock ‘n’ Roll, Long Live Rock ‘n’ Roll: Prologue to a Manifesto
  • Chris Wolfley on 20 Years Ago Today I Started a Spectacular Voyage with Hootie and the Blowfish
Facebook Twitter Youtube RSS

Theme by ThemeBounce

Back to top