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I don’t know if Scott Campbell, owner of the Larimer Lounge is a reliable source of information, but he says the following in his weekly newsletter:
NICK URATA!! Pssss Nick Urata is now opening the ERIC BACHMANN and RICHARD BUCKNER show this Friday!! This is also the last night of Eric’s national tour, please come welcome him back to Denver (where Eric will be living after this tour!!).
This really isn’t very newsworthy, I suppose, but I offer it in more of a tongue-sticking-out way to certain folks in certain cities. Enjoy!
If there’s a better place to hear independent music than The Space in Hamden, Connecticut, I’ve never seen it. You may argue the “concert experience” merits of a venue that doesn’t serve alcohol, has a strictly-enforced rule against talking in the concert area while anyone is playing, and is decorated like an explosion in a knick-knack factory, but if all you want to do is hear the music, it’s certainly difficult to beat.
The opening act for the Sept. 25th show was Saint Joe Hazelwood, a sort of folk collective led by one Chris Alspach — or at least all of them that were able to attend the show. For this particular event, they were a guitar and flute duo. Much as I like the idea of a guitar and flute duo conceptually, it lacked something in the execution. They played five lower-mid-tempo songs that were very difficult to tell apart, in a manner that would make Low look like GWAR. Although Alspach’s vocals are something of an acquired taste, the group comes across rather better on CD; this sort of music depends heavily on texture, and there simply weren’t enough instruments in this performance to provide the proper depth.
After they finished up, Aeroplane, 1929, a New Haven band whose name predates that of Death From Above 1979 by fifty years, took the stage. The change from the previous act was neck-wrenching; Aeroplane, 1929 began their life as an emo-punk band, but live at least, are closer to a straight-up rock and roll band, the kind you might expect to hear in your classier garages somewhere in mid-America. It wasn’t earth-altering, but it was fun; the band was tight, and they seemed to enjoy themselves. I picked up a copy of their new CD after the show; a review may be forthcoming.
Next up was Elijah Wyman. For someone who ostensibly has a current CD to support, Wyman’s set list was kind of perverse: Read more »
NYC’s Motherfucker makes double the headlines in NY Times Magazine and NY Times this past month (Motherfucker is selected as the opening spread of the magazine’s issue celebrating the legendary NYC Downtown figures);After having launched NYC’s wildest parties during the spring and summer, a documentary is set to finish this fall and hits the festival circuit early next year.
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If you haven’t been to Motherfucker during the last 5 months, well then, you just haven’t been out! The all star cast of 4 producers, Michael T., Justine D., Johnny T. and Georgie Seville continue to out due themselves with their cultural undertaking. NY Times boasts “Together, they’re like a group of night life superheroes, united to fight the scourge of late-night boredom with music, dancing and sexy outfits.”
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And so our Superheroes continue to wow their audiences by booking our favorite legendary artists such as The Cramps and NY Dolls and even bless NYC with surprises as with their Independence day celebration featuring unannounced special guests The Futureheads. All of this along with their outrageous performances and lavish hosts such as Mistress Formika and Lady Bunny, it’s no wonder lines continue to stretch around the blocks of the 2000-3000 capacity venues. Read more »
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Don’t you love how I’m too lazy to actually use our own affilitate link Joie?
If there’s anything more amusing than a reunion of a band that very few people cared about in the first place, it’s a “reunion” of said band that essentially doesn’t involve most of the band. Just the thought of that kind of thing makes me want to start giggling hysterically. Seriously.
Anyway, the latest such band to “regroup” seems to be When In Rome, whose only album, a self-titled affair, came out in 1988. However, after their only memorable song, “The Promise,” was used for the ending of the geek-chic hit Napoleon Dynamite, someone thought it would be a good idea to get the band back together.
They were only able to get one of the original members, however — and unlike, say, A Flock Of Seagulls, they weren’t even able to get the singer. Instead, they’re stuck with keyboard player Michael Floreale and a cast of even more anyonymous extras, if that’s possible.
They claim that they’re recording a new album right now, to be released before the end of the year, and they’ve even somehow managed to get themselves signed to Virgin. No good can come of this, mark my words. But in the meantime, you can click on over to their myspace (they don’t have a regular site, just a myspace), and listen to their rerecording of “The Promise,” sung by their replacement singer, with a couple of extra keyboard blips to remind themselves it’s the ’00s.
When you saw the title of this post you thought one of 3 things:
1) Isn’t it a little late to review that soundtrack? (in which case, you don’t know your soundtracks too well)
2) What FBDO Soundtrack? (in which case, you know that one has never been officially released)
3) He’s reviewing that FBDO unofficial soundtrack that’s floating around…. (in which case, we’re on the same (web)page.)
So, somebody got it in their head to finally compile the FBDO soundtrack. Something that many of us children of the 80’s had always wished existed, because it’s one of those rare instances where the music and the movie play so well to one another that they have a symbiotic relationship rarely found in film, but it was never released. I suspect it had something to do with the Star Wars theme used when the garage attendants stole the Ferrari and the use of Twist & Shout by the Beatles. Or maybe it was something else all together…
The unofficial soundtrack here is a great concept. You can feel the thank yous of thousands of fans around the world to this anonymous compiler. But the execution, well, that’s quite another story. Since soundtracks started doing it, the inclusion of actual film dialog in soundtracks went from cool, to expected to annoying and since we’ve landed on annoying, the over use of it here not only feels inauthentic (as that “feature” didn’t really exist on soundtracks to 80’s films), it feels clumsy and distracting. Below is the exact track listing, and you can guess as to what I mean: Read more »
