Aaron Cometbus: Pen Pals
Home is where the heart is, at least as long as you can pay the rent. But I always preferred
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East Bay
We Need A Gathering Instead
Classics Of Love at Barfly, London, 2009. Photo by Imelda Michalczyk When Lookout Records, the label I co-founded and ran
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Aaron Cometbus: In China With Green Day
It shouldn’t be surprising that a certain mystique has grown up around Aaron Cometbus. As a writer who seldom subjects
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Back in the days of Lookout magazine, nearly every issue carried a column known as San Francisco Beat, which gave
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I started writing this song about 30 years ago. Maybe longer. I honestly don’t even remember when the idea first
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That Damned Exclamation Point
Got my advance copy of Gimme Something Better by Jack Boulware and Silke Tudor. It’s a magnificent compendium of information and
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