Trick or Treat? … it all depends on where you spend your alco-dollars this weekend. Here’s some tips to keep the Rock in Rocktober without as much “ween” in Halloween: TONIGHT (aka bookers’ nightmare): Manhattan: Cake Shop: Freddy and the Jasons (“supergroup” featuring various Beets, German Measles, Honey-Dos etc), Lover! from Memphis and Bass Drum [...]
Garage Punk Spring Hath Sprung in New York!
It’s finally happened. February is over, thank the gods, and March has arrived– with the usual long tail of bands pulled through town by Austin’s SXSW festival. There’s really too much to do this weekend so the choices will be hard but persevere, friends, and thou shalt find the getdown. Tonight we have a relatively [...]
Garage Punk Videos for a Rainy Day
John Barrett’s Bass Drum of Death in Brooklyn.A rainy day like this seems a great opportunity to waste some time watching youtube clips… I took a look recently at the videos of garage punk shows I’ve been posting to youtube for almost a year now and did a little ranking… here are the results, Letterman-style: [...]
