Archives: December 2008
The 10 Greatest Sad Christmas Songs, Nos. 5 and 4: James Brown, Simon & Garfunkel
5. “Santa Claus, Go Straight to the Ghetto,” James Brown A soulful appeal that might be a little less sad if its command weren’t so urgent: Fill every stocking you see, and don’t forget any kid. A sharp electric guitar chord drives the song like a spur to the side of the reindeer. 4. “7 O’Clock News/Silent Night,” Simon &…
Random Video: Papoose, “Alphabetical Slaughter”
Whether Fat Joe did, in fact, lay a proportionately oversized smackdown of upstart rapper, Papoose, we’ll never know. We can be certain, however, that the brash Bedford-Stuyvesant product has been performing a bloody coup on the NYC mixtape scene. Here’s a classic Pap/KaySlay collabo. Move ova, Hova. — Kyle Koch Categories: Music Tags: Fat Joe, hip-hop, Papoose
Out On the Weekend, pt 3.: The People’s Liberation Big Band Cracks Nuts
From 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday at All Souls Unitarian Universalist There-Is-No-Heaven-Suckers Church, I got my first taste of the People’s Liberation Big Band, and, oh, what a blessed dollop of hot, salty jazz-rock-latin-chamber music it was, folks. As you can see from this flier, the program was called WENKYHYNK, which sounds like “chimichangavich” when you say it in Russian…
Out On the Weekend, pt 2.: Mongol Beach Party Reunion, Second Night
It’s hard to write — or even care — about the reunion show of a band that you weren’t around to see during its first run. But I’m glad I saw Mongol Beach Party get back to the jam after 15+ years of dormancy, especially considering I came with zero personal expectations — just the recommendation of people whose taste…
Drinking in church: what not to do
I would like to preface the story below by saying I don’t condone my youthful actions nor do I think it’s necessarily a brilliant idea to sneak liquor into the middle of an evangelical Christmas church service. However in high school I had the pleasure of doing just that. I was forced to go to the Christmas Eve service by…
Daily Briefs: Kansas City, I love you, but you’re bringing me down…
☃☃☃ HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND A WIENER-SHRINKINGLY FREEZING NEW YEAR!☃☃☃ %{}%This has been Daily Briefs with the Pitch inaccu-weather forecast. The pipes froze up in my house yesterday, but the projected temperatures for later in the week are up in the 20s. That’s pretty good! As a measure of how far we’ve lowered our standards, I thought Garrison Keillor was pretty…
A Christmas Tree that’s green in more ways than one
Christmas trees are one of those left-over relics of olden times that aren’t really needed to celebrate Christmas. Like sleighs, caroling or Jesus. Yet, this weekend I found myself once again getting pricked by needles as I set up a tree. I complain, but I would gladly go through that trouble before putting up some colorized piece of unconvincing plastic…
Stealing Time: Jenn Strathman gets a snow facial
Call For Action’s Jenn Strathman about met the business end of a shovel. Instead, she gets a snow facial from an angry guy in a ski-mask who’s “serious as a fucking heart attack.” And the action news SUV gets a few dings as Strathman yells, “Dude, don’t touch our car.” Hat tip to TKC. Video after the jump. Categories: News…
Out On the Weekend, pt. 1: Black Clover Christmas Party, Pendergast’s Farewell Show
So much cool stuff went down this past weekend in the music scene that rather than stay in one place and focus on one show for formal review, I flitted hither and thither like a fattened fly, taking in as much shit as I could, laying the eggs of approbation ‘pon the city’s hide. FRIDAY First Stop: Black Clover Christmas…
Mongol Beach Party Reunion, 12/20/08 at the Record Bar
Snaps from the second night of MBP’s 2008 reunion show.
The Download: New Peter, Bjorn and John
Those of us left disappointed after Peter, Bjorn and John’s recent instrumental endeavor have another reason to worry. The band posted a link to a very creepy video on its MySpace blog. There’s no official title, but it’s being referred to as “Hey (Shut the Fuck Up, Boy).” One thing’s certain, it won’t be the advertising juggernaut that “Young Folks”…
Breakfast Buffet: Monday, 12/22
%{}% Personally, it’s too cold to venture outside except for emergencies, but for some, this is hunting weather. Is it too early to start talking about Super Bowl commercials? Pedigree is getting into the act this year with an interesting ad that’s about dogs but not about dog food. Hotels have been wasting their time focusing on beds and stays…
Tuba Christmas: A band geek’s holiday revenge
Tuba players and the people who love them — we have our reasons. And we don’t need to explain them to anyone. But if we must, we can argue that the tuba’s proletarian duty in any ensemble — to simultaneously anchor and propel a piece of music — is essential, yet surpassed by the pure gorgeousness of the instrument’s primal…
Twisted Christmas
Twisted Christmas
Kilroy Presents: Final of Fall Club Wars
Kilroy Presents: Final of Fall Club Wars
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