So here we are at the weekend before the holiday season officially begins and everyone's schedule gets really busy, so get your music fixes in now. On Thursday night you can check out the final night of the Jenny Dee & The Deelinquints residency at the Lizard. It's also the first night of the International Pop Overthrow 4 night stint at Church. Night 1 of the IPO has The Buckners, The Doom Buggies and more. There are also 2 great free shows on Thursday, Lars Vegas is at the Alchemist and Sally O'Brien's has an impressive lineup. On Friday Thalia [...]
So many great choices for Thursday. You could start at Toad for the early part of the night and see uke master Melvern Taylor. Afterwards there are many venues that have great line-ups. Gordon Gano, yup the guy from the Violent Femmes, and his his new band is at the Middle East with Sidewalk Driver and Mascara. Also on Thursday there's the Lovewhip cd release at Church or go to TTs for John Powhida International Airport, Logan 5 and the Runners, Weisstronauts and Mercy James (great local line-up!). On Friday, I'll Be at Precinct to see My Own Worst Enemy, [...]
É sempre difícil lidar com expectativas e a produção do Planeta Terra parece ter entendido ao longo dos seus três anos de existência. Em 2007, o festival era a cara nova que deu certo apostando em infra-estrutura, pontualidade, preço baixo e num line-up sem headliner, mas com escolhas bem feitas como Rapture e Devo. A boa fama do primeiro ano e um line-up sensacional (Animal Collective, JAMC, Spoon, Kaiser Chiefs, Bloc Party, Foals, Breeders!) fizeram uma a segunda edição um evento divertido, mas que já não lidava tão bem com o tamanho do seu público (filas quilométricas e problemas no [...]
É sempre difícil lidar com expectativas e a produção do Planeta Terra parece ter entendido ao longo dos seus três anos de existência. Em 2007, o festival era a cara nova que deu certo apostando em infra-estrutura, pontualidade, preço baixo e num line-up sem headliner, mas com escolhas bem feitas como Rapture e Devo. A boa fama do primeiro ano e um line-up sensacional (Animal Collective, JAMC, Spoon, Kaiser Chiefs, Bloc Party, Foals, Breeders!) fizeram uma a segunda edição um evento divertido, mas que já não lidava tão bem com o tamanho do seu público (filas quilométricas e problemas no [...]
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Zowie, another great weekend of music with lots of choices. On Thursday, unfortunately the UK band, Heavy scheduled to play at Great Scotts has cancelled their tour so if you were planning on checking them out, sorry. But don't fret, there's an awesome show at the Lizard with Jenny Dee & the Deelinquints, the Rudds and Brett Rosenberg. Friday starts a big weekend for the Plough and Stars which is celebrating its 40th Anniversary with a plethora of bands playing and it's free! Friday night has Andrea Gillis , The Family Jewels and others at the Plough. If that's not [...]
Zowie, another great weekend of music with lots of choices. On Thursday, unfortunately the UK band, Heavy scheduled to play at Great Scotts has cancelled their tour so if you were planning on checking them out, sorry. But don't fret, there's an awesome show at the Lizard with Jenny Dee & the Deelinquints, the Rudds and Brett Rosenberg. Friday starts a big weekend for the Plough and Stars which is celebrating its 40th Anniversary with a plethora of bands playing and it's free! Friday night has Andrea Gillis , The Family Jewels and others at the Plough. If that's not [...]
Apparently Halloween Weekend means every band in the area is appearing as another band, could be entertaining or just confusing I guess we'll have to check them out to find the answer. On Thursday you can go to TTs and see the Talking Heads, Robert Palmer x 2, The Replacements and The Who. Or you could go to the Plough for the surf band The Trabants and the Middle East has King Khan & the BBQ Show and Downbeat 5. On Friday the Armory in Somerville has a spooky event with the screening of Phantom of the Opera and music [...]
Brooklyn Vegan's day party at Pianos Thursday offered a rare chance to catch Montreal's convulsive Duchess Says as well as one of approximately 237 opportunities to see JEFF the brotherhood. I'm happy to say both were worth it. Duchess Says I'm not even sure how to go about describing Duchess Says except to say it was like watching the reverse of an exorcism...an introcism perhaps? Singer/acrobat/crowd antagonizer Annie-C Deschênes flails around (and off) the stage with such precise, slow-motion theatrics that the word possessed [...]
So what's happening this weekend? I think there are still tix available for Bill Maher at the Wilbur on Thursday (and they now have a liquor license so cheers!). Also on Thursday you have a chance to check out the new project the Port Charles Quintet at the Plough which sounds fun or you could go to the Brattle for the Califone show. But if these don't appeal to you, don't worry, there are many other great choices on Thursday. On Friday, the show at the Cantab looks strong with the Brooklyns, but then there's also Dennis [...]
Another great week of cool music! On Thursday there are some awesome choices: there's the legendary Al Green at the House of Blues (hopefully you took advantage of reduced tickets thru Live Nation), great indie rock at the Middle East Downstairs with The DoDos and The Ruby Suns, The Ego and the Oracle (aka Jim of Jim's Big Ego) at the Burren, the reclusive cult figure Daniel Johnston at the Paradise and more, how to choose? Friday brings Art Brut to the Middle East, Reverse to Church and the Spendid Nobodies to Toad; all are great choices. On Saturday you [...]
I like to think I can string together a serviceable sentence, but seeing Bon Iver early last Sunday morning at LA's opulent Hollywood Forever cemetery as the rising sun burned through a thick haze of fog after a night long slumber party on the cemetery lawn was a once in a lifetime experience for which words can't really do justice. But I'll try. The all-night event began at midnight when the gates Hollywood Forever (final resting place of Charlie Chaplin , Dee Dee Ramone and Rudolph Valentino , among many [...]
Remember the episode of Entourage where Vince was trying to get the Ramones bio project off the ground but couldn't for a variety of reasons? It seems everything mentioned were the actual reasons as to why the Ramones bio project hasn't been made yet in real life either. The memoir mentioned in the article will be released in December '09 . Fox Searchlight wants to be sedated. The specialty division is in negotiations to board a project about the life of the Ramones, based on the upcoming memoir "I [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive S aturday night, Oct. 3, friends, family and fans will gather at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in L.A. for what Tommy Ramone calls a " Ramones fair." Fans who pay the $10 admission to raise money for prostate cancer research -- the disease that killed guitarist Johnny Ramone -- will see the world premiere of ' Night of the Living Dead 3-D ' and the 1977 Ramones concert film, 'It's Alive,' a retrospective of Dee Dee Ramone 's [...]
Filed under: The Chum Bucket Today's awesome collaboration announcement: Danger Mouse and the Shins ' James Mercer. [ NME ] Joe Jonas says he's too busy to star in the film 'Valentine's Day.' Those eyebrows don't tweeze themselves, you know. [ Angry Ape ] Dee Dee Ramone used to be "fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh funky." [ Fark ] When your live show setup looks like an Olympics opening ceremony, it's kind of hard to make a profit. [...]
Though Joey and Johnny always got more attention, it is their erstwhile, original bassist Dee Dee who many feel best embodied the ethos of punk rock. Part drug fiend, part man-child, part live-fo... Continue reading "Eyeballin': Dee Dee Ramone's History on My Arms" >
Of all the New York bands that ever were perhaps none are more famous than The Ramones, the band that is widely regarded as the first punk band (they probably weren't) and wrote songs that almost never surpassed three minute in length. The repeated choruses and verses all the time, and if you listen to it on a regular basis it sounds like some grown up nursery rhyme with dirty or dysfunctional lyrics. Yet they are one of the most important bands of all-time because they did the simple song better then anyone else. When Ramones [...]
Five years ago today, Johnny Ramone died after a long battle with prostrate cancer. From Wikipedia: "He met future bandmate Douglas Colvin, later to become Dee Dee Ramone, in the early 1970s when he was delivering dry cleaning. They would eat lunch together and discuss their mutual love of bands like the Stooges and MC5. They went to Manny's Guitar Emporium in New York City in January 1974. Johnny bought a used blue Mosrite Ventures II for $54 and change, including tax. On the same trip Colvin bought a Danelectro bass. They collaborated with future bandmate Jeffrey [...]
"History on My Arms" is a reissue of Lech Kowalski's 2003 documentary "Hey Is Dee Dee Home" with two additional video vignettes and a bonus audio CD. I would assume that most readers are familiar with "Hey Is Dee Dee Home" so I won't go into great detail on the main feature. "Hey Is Dee Dee Home" contains interview footage with Dee Dee that was shot in 1992 for the still-unreleased Johnny Thunders bio-pic "Born to Lose". As such, the main subject of the interview is Johnny Thunders, The Heartbreakers and the almost-super group Whores of [...]
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