Missoula Blogger at Large
Nate Schweber
Rocker, Writer, Knucklehead, New Heathen, Subterranean Homesick Montanaphile.
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It's 2:43 a.m. and the last chords of Lucinda Williams‚ and Elvis Costello's duet at the Beacon Theatre in New York City are still clanging in my ears. I ran into a woman at the show who I haven't seen since we were students at
Hellgate High School in Missoula. Everywhere you turn out here there's another Montana ex-pat. Me? I moved here on Sept. 1, 2001. Welcome to New York, kid. Be glad you're not dead. I spent a while as an intern at Rolling Stone and the Village Voice, then as a cub reporter at various rags in Manhattan and New Jersey. Now I'm freelance. I sing and write songs for my roots rock band, the New Heathens (www.newheathens.com). Back in Missoula I played tuba in the UM pep band, disc jockeyed on KBGA and wrote for the Montana Kaimin. There I met my good friend Courtney Lowery who offered me
this gig blogging for New West. I jumped at the bait because the two things I care most about are rock n' roll in New York, and Montana's issues. I'm moving back someday, and I don't want to see the place looking like New
Jersey when I get there.
