We’ve had lots of folks sending in emails asking when we’ll be arriving in Austin for SXSW, and that picture up above pretty much describes what our replies are.  If the incredible decline in content over the last couple of weeks hasn’t communicated it, perhaps the sad face will.  We’re pretty swamped over here, but [...]

I usually sleep at night.  It’s just one of those things that I’m used to doing.  The sun goes down, I wile away a few hours with a book or a television or the local reprobates at my neighborhood opium den and I tuck myself into bed.  Seven consecutive (or so) hours of sleep is [...]

This week’s been at least a touch calmer over at Citizen Dick headquarters and while I’m probably not in any shape to have an excellent brunch, this week’s tracklist is pretty stout.  The forecast for the next three months looks promising, and we’ll do our best to keep you updated.  As we usually advertise, don’t [...]

(Editor’s note: Did you know that they’re messing with the penny?  The wise old souls a the U.S. Mint are totally cocking up the back of that thing. Given that our reader demographics department tells me that there’s a 72% chance that you’re an American, this seems to be an appropriate forum to start a [...]

As Brian mockingly mentioned earlier in the week, we’ve hit the winter doldrums here at Citizen Dick and have been swamped with our 9 to 5’s.  Call it burnout, call it stress, but we’ve been neglecting our readership quite a bit.  As we slowly crawl out of our ice caves and begin to hit you [...]

I’ve been watching a lot of Olympic curling.  A lot.  I’m sending text messages about the uniform choices of Canadian women’s skip Cheryl Bernard.  I’m peppering my daily speech with curling terms (as in: referring to the last cup of coffee in the pot as “the hammer”).  I’m seriously considering joining a league and making [...]

(Editor’s note: We’ve been absentee landlords here this week.  We’re sorry; we miss you.  As we are periodically wont to do, however, we’ll give you the quick update on our recent whereabouts and goings on.  It’s not like we’ve just been sitting around with our thumbs up our bums; we’ve had legitimate business outside of [...]

As you may have noticed, we’ve been a little weak with the content this week.  You get our sincere apologies.  It’s been a busy few weeks for all of the Dicks and we’re slowly finishing up the circle laps we’ve been swimming.  We’ll keep this short and simple:  There are huge things happening musically and [...]

We’ve been following Joe (WOXY DJ and writer at Each Note Secure/The Futurist) and his exploits over in Oslo, Norway at the by:Larm 2010 festival.  In his highly entertaining video journals, he mentions The Megaphonic Thrift as a “wall of sound” and we concur.  “Acid Blues” has been floating around the internet for the better [...]

I had this byzantine diatribe on covers planned for today.  (The argument, essentially is this:  it’s fine for Limp Bizkit to cover George Michael, because, on the scale of artistic integrity, the former is a four and the latter is, at best, a six.  It is not, however, okay for Dave Matthews (at best a [...]

I believe one of our first Radio Dick features was on Valentine’s Day last year.  I vaguely remember hosting a sarcastic discussion about how I was more interested in getting my tax return than in any sort of holiday for lovers.  It’s probably fitting this week that the blogosphere was splattered with so much loving [...]

Step-by-step guide to baby care:
1. Change diaper
2. Provide food
3. Hope baby sleeps for more than four minutes.
4. Try to perform all non-baby related tasks while baby is asleep.
5. Repeat without pause for three to four years.
So, not a lot of time for Lazy Saturday today.  Just three rhetorical questions and related content.  Cheers.
Q. 1: Remember [...]

(Editor’s note:  That’s not my living room up there.  It’s a photo of The Who on a huge TV in an immaculate entertainment room that I found on Flickr.  Pretty good visual metaphor for the current state of the band that recorded The Who Sell Out, no?
Three quick things on the Super Bowl before we [...]

Nice to see Brian hit his Lazy Saturday post, even if it’s on Sunday.  In any event, as promised, I’ve got the second installment of this week’s Radio Dick primed and ready to go.  So as y’all overindulge today and watch the Colts take it to the Saints, do it with a soundtrack of new [...]

Kevin mentioned yesterday that I recently had a kid.  He’s the bee’s knees (my baby, not Kevin), but he certainly has thrown a ratchet in the old sleep cycle.  For those of you yet to embark on the journey of parenthood (which I’m imagining is the vast majority of the expensive-jean clad, indie rock blog [...]

Those dudes up there attended Yale.  They’re ambitious and reliable.  If I were forced to hop in a boat with 9 other dudes for my own safety, I’d be pleased to have these young lads at the helm.  We’re not as reliable at Citizen Dick, or at least we haven’t been over the last three [...]

It seems as if the last couple of months have their built in hooks, with December harkening an annual wrap-up and January getting the rejuvenation vibe up and running again. But what about the months on the other sides? I mean, what does November get from indie rock? And until the fellas at Exit Stencil [...]

I’m sick.  Sniffling, coughing, shuffling back and forth between the bathroom and my increasingly stuffy bedroom.  There are days when I bitch about work, but I’d rather be there now, slogging through my routine instead of hacking up a lung.
I’ve resisted the glo-fi for a long time, refusing to buy into Neon Indian and their [...]

This has been a tough week as a literature teacher.  Brian alluded to the heartfelt loss we feel as a reading community at the loss of Howard Zinn and JD Salinger this week.  Zinn was a seminal author for Brian, and understandably so.  For me, however, Salinger’s writing marked a pivotal change for me.  My [...]

Austin based quintet Balmorhea makes really good instrumental music; that’s maybe an overly simple way to start a review, but it is totally true.  More erudite reviewers would cite a slew of modern composers that the band draws influence and inspiration from. (A review of their 2008 effort, River Arms, on P4K referenced Stravinsky, Keith [...]