I recently found out that the charismatic leader and freak du jour from All Mighty Senators, Landis, is currently very ill and has been hospitalized due to renal (kidney) failure. AMS, a mainstay of the Washington DC/Baltimore area music scene, are one of my seminal music influences and I have been lucky enough to have shared the stage with them a couple of times in the past. They are also really cool cats who dissolve the line between bands and fans with booty-shakin’ goodness. (more…)