Photo Credit The bass, vibraphone and drum trio Benko have realized a swell video for “The Eurohit” off its soon-to-be-released LP. The talented Erik Grostic, a well-read drinking buddy and sushi bar cohort from Austin, is on vocs and bass. Video on YouTube

Monkey: Journey to the West is a Cirque de so gay-style opera designed by the brains behind Gorillaz and featuring a full 70+ piece Chinese orchestra along with the squiggly synths and bumpin’ beats you’d expect. The score was the most compelling part of the multisensory treat of a Monkey show I saw during Spoleto …

West Texas Plant – Photo Credit I’m a pretty big music geek, so I rarely come upon an older album I haven’t heard already that really hits it out of the park for me.   Those times you listen to something and it punches a new hole into your idea of what music can be comes …

Skip forwrard to 1 minute in for the action. I got a PSP recently for God of War–which is fantastic, undoubtedly the most polished and impressive portable game I’ve ever played–but the big surprise was the other game I got it for: Loco Roco.  Pleasantly similar to Katamari Damacy, while not derivative. It shares the …

A delicacy in the South is bread & butter pickles.  Instead of sour dill pickles, these are super-sweet with a slight bitter taste.  Why they are called bread and butter I have no idea, as they have neither. I found some pickles recently by a local canner that mixes jalapeños & cucumbers.  Superb!  Sweet, spicy, …