Black Lips w/ Vivian Girls 4.21.11

Thursday night we partied to the sounds of the Black Lips and Vivian Girls. It looked like this.

Vivian Girls





Black Lips





This fool right ch'ere got kicked the eff out. Twice.



A future PBR advertisement





Fog machines have always been and always will be...stoopid.

The Good Times Are Killing Me

This past weekend was quite eventful. Saturday was Record Store Day, a holiday for all vinyl geeks and collectors. Needless to say, I am one of those and I indulged heavily. My day kicked off at about noon and stretched until the wee wee hours.

My first stop of the day was Euclid Records where I caught a performance by John Doe (X!!) & Jill Sobule.





Me, Chelsea, & Ben show our excitement over our finds.





Double the Donna Summer, double the fun!



After devouring some sandwiches from a great little deli spot called Fozzie's Sandwich Emporium (S. Big Bend), I headed home to nap before heading out to my friends Sara and Jenny's dirty thirty throw down at the Waiting Room bar in St. Ann.

Jenny & Sara



Dan, Jenny, & Adam



Next, I headed off to Apop Records to close out Record Store Day with more record shopping and some hardcore punk rock courtesy of Defect Defect and Canadian Rifle.

Tiffany from Apop don't like cameras.



Tom being a sexy beast



Defect Defect



Canadian Rifle



I made my way back to the birthday party following the show and called it a day sometime around 3am.

Sunday afternoon was all about Mix Tape Club. Mix Tape Club is something we do once a month. Everyone who makes a mix tape, gets a mix tape. We throw names in a hat and draw. This months club took place at Tower Grove Park and a good time was had by all.

Tapes



Eleanor, Luc, Jeremy, & Eric



Bryan



Martin





After Mix Tape Club, I headed up to the Firebird to catch Bass Drum of Death.

Bass Drum of Death





They sound like this

Cheap Thrills #6

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Playlist:

Total Control - Stare Way (Aarght! Records)
OBN IIIs - Mad (Tic Tac Totally)
Heavy Times - No Plans (Hozac)
The Welders - Baby Don't Go (BDR)
Fergus & Jeronimo - Blind Muslim Girl (Tic Tac Totally)
Black Sunday - There's No Time (Tic Tac Totally)
Personal & The Pizzas - Don't You Go In That Ground (Raw Pie/1-2-3-4 Go!)
Straight Arrows - Bad Temper (It's Happening/Juvenile)
Mind Spiders - Going Away Tonight (S-T/Dirtnap)
X-Ray Eyeballs - Broken Beds (Hozac)
Spread Eagles - Don't Talk To The Narc (Boom Chick)
Overnight Lows - Last Meal For The Underachiever (City Of Rotten Eyes/Goner)
Overnight Lows - Slit Wrist Rock N Roll (Goner)
Useless Eaters - Agoraphobic (Cheap Talk - The Singles/Tic Tac Totally)
Wizzard Sleeve - Alabamas Doomed (Make The World Go Away/Hozac)
BOB - The Things That You Do (Rerun)
Ty Segall - Can't Talk To You (Horn The unicorn/Captcha)
The Pizazz - Sweater Sleeve (Get Out Of My House/Burger)
Tenement - Sitcom Moms (Rock Bottom)
Topless Mongos - My, My, My (Mammoth Cave)
John Wesley Coleman - Ooh Basketball (Bad Lady Goes To Jail/Goner)
The Shrapnelles - HIV (Hozac)
Thee Oops - On The Lift (Taste Of Zimbabwe/Slovenly)
Sonny & The Sunsets - Too Young To Burn (Tomorrow Is Alright/Soft Abuse)

Too Busy To Blog

I've been too busy to blog in a while but I'll get back at it soon. I promise. Until then, feast your eyes on THIS!

Cheap Thrills #5

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Roger C. Reale & Rue Morgue - Kill Me (RadioActive/Big Sound)
Protex - A Place In Your Heart (Strange Obsessions/Sing Sing)
Moonhearts - I Said (Self Titled/Tic Tac Totally)
Ex-Humans - Shakin' (Self Titled/Rob's House)
Unwed Teenage Mothers - Stick Around (Tic Tac Totally)
Crusaders Of Love - Looking For Us (Never Grow Up/Douchemaster)
Oblivians - Oblivion (Vice)
999 - My Street Stinks (The Punk Singles Collection/Captain Oi!)
Davila 666 - Dos O Tres (12in EP/Rob's House)
Parting Gifts - Keep Walkin' (Strychnine Dandelion/In The Red)
Thee Oh Sees - A Flag In The Court (Help/In The Red)
Kontakt Mikrofoon Orkest - Do The Residue (MCCB)
Nerves - When You Find Out (Penniman)
Rollerball - Savage Eyes (Sing Sing)
The Raincoats - In Love (Self Titled/Kill Rock Stars)
Doom Town - Worthless Ones (Demo/Self-Released)
The Doubt - Time Out (V/A Power Pearls Vol. 6)
Leyton Buzzards - I'm Hanging Around (V/A Shake Some Action Vol. 1/Shake Some Action)
Straightshooter - She's So Fine (Sing Sing)
Gentlemen Jesse & His Men - She's A Trap (Douchemaster)
Protex - A Night Of Action (Strange Obsessions/Sing Sing)
Gories - Goin' To The River (I Know you Fine, But How You Doin'/Crypt)
Off! - Upside Down (Vice)
The Poets - Merry Christmas, Baby

Magic Kids / Bosco Delrey 11/17/2010

We rock & roll on Wednesday nights.

Bosco Delrey





Magic Kids

Beat 'N' Soul Festival

This weekend, I celebrated two nights of Beat and Soul action at the Off Broadway. Here are the highlights of the festival for me.

From my favorite city in the world, Memphis, TN comes the River City Tanlines. RCT's hit us with a no bullshit set of hard rocking garage punk with good pop sensibilities.





Also from Memphis, the Bo-Keys which features some legendary musicians of the soul genre. Charles "Skip" Pitts, who is responsible for laying down that funky wah-wah guitar on the Isaac Hayes classic Shaft. He was also a guitarist for the Isley Brothers prior to Ernie Isley taking over on lead guitar. Another, is the legendary Ben Cauley who is the sole survivor of the plane crash that killed Otis Redding and the majority of his live backing band, the Bar-Kays. Bassist, James Alexander was on another plane. The Bo-Keys laid down some original Booker T & the MG's styled instrumentals as well as some of the material the members played on. Skip Pitts of course played Shaft and It's your Thing by the Isley Brothers. Ben Cauley sang a stunning version of Otis Redding's These Arms of Mine and later, Sitting On The Dock of the Bay.







Charles Walker & the Dynamites laid down some pretty solid soul and an excellent version of Tyrone Davis' A Woman Needs To Be Loved. Charles cut a lot of records back in the 60's and 70's but had never really hit the big time. As you know, that makes not one bit of difference to me.





Night two of the Beat 'N' Soul fest was heavy on the beat side of things. Kicking things off was a band I've seen many times before. St. Louis' own, the Nevermores.



Picking up right where the Nevermores left off was Philadelphia, PA garage rockers Mondo Topless. Mondo Topless delivered an energetic set that included a garaged up rendition of the Bad Brains tune Pay To Cum!







Following Mondo Topless was Detroit rock band the Sights. The Sights had a sound derived from the 1970's but not necessarily in a bad way. Take one part blues rock and add a touch of power pop and you get the idea.



I'll be the first to admit, I've never been a huge fan of the Fleshtones on record. What their recordings lack in rawness and energy, they certainly leave at their live shows. These guys were all over the place and were an excellent choice to close the weekends festivities.









Time out for push ups during their song Push Up Man