I didn’t want to do this. I really had no interest in it at all. I’ve turned down more bands than I can count on both hands, including, and mostly, bands that I’m good friends with and enjoy, musically and otherwise. I just don’t think my knowledge is vast enough to accurately write up a Read More
Tiger Flowers’ tour with Meek Is Murder is winding down, but not before another entry in Jesse James Madre’s Whiskey Diaries It’s 2:30 in the morning and I’m driving and I’m somewhere between Dallas and Texarkana and the roads are empty except for a few cop cars that sit off in the brush like sleeping vultures with Read More
Our dude Jesse James Madre of Tiger Flowers has been mad prolific out there on the road. Here’s a double-shot of his SXSW diaries, with another serving on the menu for tomorrow. Enjoy. It’s 2 a.m. and we’re leaving a basement show outside Dallas, Texas. Our first show after the clusterfuck of SXSW. The basement Read More
Jesse James Madre from Tiger Flowers is back with another installment of his SXSW musings; check it out. I wouldn’t trade this life for any other. The nights like these. This is what gives me hope on the road. Times like these. You’re out and everything is right and you play hard and fast and Read More
Jesse James Madre of Tiger Flowers is back with another installment of his South By Southwest journal, which has been fucking awesome, in the event you haven’t been reading them. It’s early Thursday morning and our first show is at Hoek’s Death Metal Pizza Shop. We go on at 12:30 in the afternoon and we’re Read More
Tiger Flowers frontman Jesse James Madre is having a blast in Austin with the homeless hotspot dudes and everyone else at SXSW. Read on… There’s something about the South that speaks to my bones. Maybe it’s the last residuals of the native blood running through my veins. Maybe it’s because my mother named me Jesse Read More
Tiger Flowers are nearing Austin as they prepare to rip SXSW a new asshole with Meek Is Murder. Frontman Jesse James Madre bring us his third diary from the road, and it’s a winner. Sometimes, you just have to drive. The roads down here stretch for miles and they’re straight and flat like 6th grade Read More
Good morning ladies and germs. Today marks a wonderful day here at Gun Shy Assassin: The second entry in the Whiskey Diaries from Jesse James Madre, frontman for Tiger Flowers. This recent entry is something that, once you’ve read it, you won’t soon forget it It probably hasn’t been sitting there that long? It’s under Read More
Jesse James Madre and his band Tiger Flowers are headed to SXSW, and Jesse will be documenting that trip for Gun Shy Assassin; here is his first tour diary entry. Enjoy. Here’s to the road! It’s endless miles and secrets. To all the things we leave out there and the things we take back. The Read More
We put out a call here at Gun Shy Assassin recently to various folks in the industry seeking their Top 10 albums of 2011, and most people told us they were too busy Christmas shopping to give a fuck. But some folks did respond, and we’ll be bringing you their lists over the next couple Read More