Saints & Scholars Pub, Raleigh

Tuesday, April 23, 7 p.m.

The place is new to me but the host is not. April Anders was been kind enough to let me use her footage from her open mics in my video for There Goes the Neighborhood — which you can also stream right now on Spotify or wherever you stream or you can even name your price and buy it at Bandcamp. It's the parts where I'm wearing a black shirt with a black and white tie and lots of wood paneling behind me. That was the Berkeley Cafe in Raleigh, which is in the process of moving a few blocks. Here's (Them Pretty Boys Are All the Same But) Us Ugly Guys (Got Style) from the same night.

Also a reminder that I'll be on the radio, which for you will almost certainly mean internet radio, on Saturday, May 4, at 3 p.m. EDT, on the show Licks & Lyrics on WCOM 103.5 FM Carrboro. Click the link to listen online. You can do that and listen to WCOM any time, but of course I'd love it if you did it at the specific time when you'd hear The King Teen.

Song of the Newsletter:

The Faybul:

Punk Rock to Country Humor:

The Rise of the King Teen

The copy editor side of my personality is really struggling with all the colons in my title of this section. The artist side of me is all rules are made to be broken Pops.

Which is also why the Song of the Newsletter isn't a song it's an interview.

The Faybul is a podcast and YouTube show run by Nathanael Meade, who interviews all sorts of undiscovered artists in various fields. He told me there's a magazine too.

I am nothing if not undiscovered!

Nathanael came into a Facebook music group I'm in looking for candidates to feature and asked people to send him examples of their work. A LOT of people come into groups like that making asks like that and 99% of them are scammers, but something about Nathanael's approach told me he might not be. I put him through a kind of jury questionnaire and was convinced he was who he said he was: "I promote people who dare to dream!"

So we did the interview in the video above. It's lightly edited, about 40 minutes long. 

It's a little strange to be interviewed in the way a big star would be interviewed when you're celebrating getting your Spotify Monthly Listeners count into double digits — side note: Hell yeah:

But it's also fun. And Nathanael asks good questions. You even get to hear my super-clichéd answer to one about how I got into music, which is NOT that I saw Elvis on the Ed Sullivan show. I'm old but not that old, though I am old enough to remember the Ed Sullivan Show. I mostly remember plate spinning. A lot of plate spinning.

Anyway, check it out. One difference between this interview and any I'll do if I ever become famous is that I told the truth in this one — except for this one time, but I said I was joking. I once heard Marlon Brando say he felt no obligation to tell the truth in interviews for profiles, and I plan to take a similar approach.

I would have told the truth to Nancy Scott, who probably would have caught me in any lies anyway. 

One more thing about Nancy: On the first work day of 1990 I walked up to her for some reason. I was wearing a T-shirt with a band logo or a funny saying or something on it, and when she looked up and saw me she gave this great frumpy sigh of disappointment. What the hell? 

I said "What??" and she said "I had so hoped we were going to have a decade where I wouldn't have to read people's fronts."

* Oh, and about that asterisk up there where I said she was old? She wasn't as old as I thought. She was 62 when she retired. I learned that from her 2005 obituary.

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