Most Current News!

*MUSIC

The new album from Mulebone, featuring the cut "Tradin' 40's" (written by Hugh Pool and Preacher Boy) is now available on pre-release! Click here for more information.

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First videos from the Hoi Polloi reunion concert! Plus, debut Hoi Polloi album (recorded 1989) now available on CD! Click here to purchase!

And click here to see video!

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Preacher Boy to perform with Blues Legend Robert Lowery!

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HOI POLLOI to reunite!

Returning after an 18-year hiatus to grace again the stage of a now-venerable rock club they helped christen back in 1991, San Francisco’s always highly regarded but perennially underground HOI POLLOI are re-forming to bring their Peter Gabriel-by-way-of-Husker Du sounds to contemporary denizens of Bottom of the Hill. For a sonic taste of genuine alternative rock from a time when alternative rock was a genuine alternative, HOI POLLOI will perform at Bottom of the Hill on February 11, 2010, with The Hollyhocks and Hey Brontosaurus. (Featuring the classic HOI POLLOI line-up of Patrick Kelly, Barry Shaw, Christopher Watkins (Preacher Boy), and Megan French.)

To download the press release, please click here.

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"Gnawbone," the Preacher Boy-produced-and-co-written debut release from artist Will Scott, has been nominated for 2009 Blues Album of the Year at the Independent Music Awards. Judges include Tom Waits, Charlie Musselwhite, and more. To vote for "Gnawbone" please click here! (Or click the logo below)

 

*POETRY

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation will be including extracts from three of Christopher Watkins' poems on wine in an upcoming episode of its radio program Poetica, to be broadcast on June 19, 2010. The episode will be called "Poetica-Vintage Words" and the poems to be included are: "November," "The Persistance of Irritants," and "Pepper-Side Down."

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"A Wild Flaw Amongst Us" noted in fine review of The Line-Up: Poems on Crime ...

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The gallery installation version of "25 Adult Life Jackets," a collaborative work of poetry and visual art by Scott Sandell and Christopher Watkins, reviewed in The Sag Harbor Express!

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Watkins' debut volume of poems reviewed by Hayden's Ferry Review!
"...the relish with which the language of these poems captures and caresses the seen world is a reminder that though there may never be enough time to experience every detail of the ever-changing world, there is, however, enough time to enjoy it..."

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Hear Christopher Watkins reading "A Wild Flaw Amongst Us" (from the latest issue of "The Line Up: Poems on Crime") at CrimeWav! (May 2009)
If, for some reason, this link doesn't play for you, there's a pop-up MP3 "CrimePlayer" on http://crimewav.com

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"Troutman Street Revisited" published by Euphony! (The literary journal of The University of Chicago, Spring 2009)

 

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