Happy Birthday to Alice Bag!

Alice Bag deserves all the happy birthday wishes in spite of the fact that I’ve kind of dropped the ball this year posting happy birthday wishes to my favorite musicians especially since I abandoned my other blogs. So I’m not letting her down!

Y’all should check out her discography if you didn’t see my excessively detailed reviews of her albums already, and you can find her discography on Spotify, Youtube, Bandcamp, and other music streaming platforms. (But you should also buy her albums, if you can. TRUST me – they’re worth it. You will not be disappointed.) One thing I wanted to add that’s so amazing about her and her career in music: to me it seems like she’s sincerely continued the DIY tradition of punk rock, all the way up through now. Which – just saying – makes her a true representative of punk rock. You can’t say that’s not respectable…

In honor of it being her birthday, and knowing how steadfastly she supports and promotes other women musicians, I’m also listening to the band Fea for the first time, and I’ll probably continue my weekly tradition of listening to Fatty Cakes and the Puff Pastries (because I adore them and their music!). I’m not done listening to Fea’s album yet, but so far I’m impressed and I appreciate their music a lot!

So happy Alice Bag day! It’d probably also be appropriate to put a paper bag over your head and jam out to some badass punk rock (by women, for sure…or by fellow Chicanx/Latinx! I’m sure that’d also be great!).

Happy Birthday, Howie

Today would be one of my favorite musicians’ birthday, so happy birthday to Howie Epstein, a fantastic bassist, talented multi-instrumentalist, awesome producer and songwriter, and incomparable backing vocalist with a voice like an angel.

I’m sharing this video because, though he isn’t on bass as his usual role in Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers went, it’s yet another example of what a wonderful musician he was, and that’s my favorite thing to celebrate about him.
But if you want great basslines, this is my favorite TPATH track with Howie on bass. (Also, this is one of my favorite TPATH songs, period. Not to get salty on Howie’s birthday but there is NO EXCUSE why this song wasn’t freakin’ on Southern Accents! I blame Jimmy Iovine, the king of making dumb suggestions like leaving perfectly good tracks off of albums especially where TPATH was concerned.)