Danny Noonan
TagFilmmaker Bill Badgley talks Rebel Dread—& debuts a sick new band, NOÏ
The legendary Federation X-er is back with new music at Oracle this Friday. Plus, you can stream Bill’s latest film—get the details!
Happy 30th! Here’s every Grog Shop photo from my files
Were you at any of these classic shows during the Grog’s first decade? Congratulations to Kathy & all Grog people on the major milestone!
RIP Pat: Here’s every Pat’s in the Flats photo from the U.S. Rocker archive
This is my tribute to Pat Hanych, proprietor of my favorite Cleveland dive bar, who passed last month. Tons of unpublished photos inside!
“Trying to convey an acid trip with mere words”: Speak In Tongues lives again in a wild new book
Author Eric Sandy & publisher Joe Biel take us behind the scenes of the deluxe oral history of Cleveland’s beloved punk DIY venue.
An oral history of Junking Theory, one of 1999’s greatest bands
In this debut “Noise Rock Nugget” we examine a classic Speak In Tongues band featuring Bobby, Raphi, Danny and Dave…
Here’s my entire collection of Speak In Tongues photos, clippings & stories
The legendary Cleveland D.I.Y. venue was a crossroads for great musicians & artists—see artifacts that have never been online until now!
Never can say goodbye: Yet another star-studded Invisible City farewell
More farewell concerts than a Cher tour: It’s an all-star jam with celebrities from the Cleveland music scene. First time online!
Saying goodbye to Cleveland: Coffinberry and Sean & Ian at The Invisible City
This was the first of the farewell parties we had at our recording studio / loft. These photos have never before been published!
100,000 Years Of Sean & Ian album listening party at The Invisible City
At the time, we used our newly-arrived CDs as—you guessed it!—yet another excuse to have a bon voyage party…
Electroclash in the Flats: The Foreign Exchange Students with The Cassettes at Pat’s
I was feeling suffocated by the gnarly dude-wall of folded arms at every fucking show. Enough! I needed to live. And dance.
Baptized as a bondage bottom by Misty Martinez at Pat’s In The Flats
This was THE disruptive, change-your-thinking concert no one—least of all me—ever expected it to be. Photos never before online!
Weed crazy: Celebrating 420 with Begit N Frenz
Queer drug-loving writer William S. Burroughs said: “Mind your own business.” That always cut to the heart of this issue, in my opinion.
Weird times at the old Grog Shop: A Festival of Seans, one Black Key & Har Mar Superstar
Sean Tillmann, the Black Keys’ Pat Carney, Robert “The Kid Stays In The Picture” Evans, Ron Jeremy—they’re all in this tale of Sean-sanity!
New singer, same Rar: My Name Is Rar-Rar play Pat’s with Sean & Ian, Plus Ultra
Rar-Rar returns with a new singer (Greg from Xerobot) plus Sean & Ian and Plus Ultra at our first post-Speak In Tongues production…
Beckett & Finky Binks’ hot collab, Whales, open for The Moldy Peaches & The Cassettes at Beachland Ballroom
2002 begins and Speak In Tongues is no more. Eeek! The great (and ongoing) diaspora begins. Unfortunately Williamsburg won, and Cleveland lost…
The second to last Speak In Tongues show was the best Christmas of all time
One week before Cleveland’s beloved DIY collective ceased to exist we had the ultimate party with a wild cast of characters old and new…
Speak In Tongues photos: My Name Is Rar-Rar, Lozenge, Begit N Frenz, Mind No Mind, Scam Carnage vs. Spilt Milk
Classic Cleveland geniuses and errant Luttenbachers co-mingle in one of the greatest DIY shows of the 21st century at ol’ Speak In Tongues…
Watch: Razak Solar System’s final show at the old Grog Shop
We’d been through a lot in eighteen months. We were like King Crimson for latchkey kids. Yes for thrash addicts. Now it was time to bow out.
“Speak In Tongues on the Eastside”: Oblongata, Razak Solar System & Beckett take the Grog Shop
Could we create a Speak In Tongues package show and tour it around our hometown? I’m happy to tell you it worked!
Men’s Recovery Project with Razak Solar System, Mind No Mind & more at Speak In Tongues
Our idol Sam McPheeters played & we went all-out with a new venue in the basement (‘The Ashtray’) & a 12-page program—see it here!
Speak In Tongues mystery solved: GSMF, Puncture Wound, Begit N Frenz & some huge stars!
Help! I went through great effort and expense ($hooting with Polaroid) to document this excellent concert, but then wrote down no details…
Banging our heads on the keyboard of life: Razak Solar System at the Beachland Ballroom, circa Y2K
Razak Solar System were Speak In Tongues refugees on the wrong side of town, playing to an empty room in the year 2000…
Y2K—okay!? Dr. Zombie MD at Speak In Tongues with Zeek Sheck, Begit N Frenz, more
“Medical renegade Klaus von Zombie has reanimated the dead and enslaved them to be his backup band!” Re-live the horror!
Go behind the curtain of Razak Solar System’s ultimate Speak In Tongues performance
Post-Grunge audiences hungered for shock, you see. But only lard-butted, hard rock laggards trashed their instruments in the year 2000…
NOT the “Jim Clevo Stage”! The Divine Invasion at Speak In Tongues
I’m so proud to have played with this group: Bob from blue…MAX, Mike from Primitive / Sheilbound, Chris Young and myself…