Subject: Aaron Elliot

• Last Night: Thorns of Life at the Hemlock

  Thorns of Life Monday, January 26, 2009 
 Hemlock Tavern Review By Brian MossPhotos by "Shanty" Cheryl GroffBetter Than: Trite trends and reunion shows. Musical nostalgia offers quite the philosophical predicament. Fearing an inevitable slip into the old curmudgeon who shakes his cane at the kids of today, I wonder whether I'm losing touch, or if rock's subversive elements have legitimately stagnated. Perhaps when we're young our desperation for something to call our own gives anything atypi

  January 27, 2009

• Thorns of Life Q&A with Blake Schwarzenbach

  Interview by Brian Moss, Photo by "Shanty" Cheryl Groff Blake Schwarzenbach has become a subculture luminary over the past two decades. Distinguished by his lyrical capacity to expose the human condition, Schwarzenbach has been the subject of admiration, praise, idolization, backlash, and rumor. From 1988 to 1996 he fronted San Francisco's Jawbreaker, a band that redefined and revitalized American punk. Following a move to New York after Jawbreaker's breakup, he formed Jets to Brazil, where hi

  January 28, 2009