OK, to get this out of the way: The Pogues at 9:30 last night was the best show I have ever seen in my life. It was fucking religious. And although I've no idea how Shane MacGowan has kept his liver from sliding down his pantleg after all these years, he has and he was [...]
1. Guitarist Nels Cline looks like he's here to fix your printer, except when he's rocking out to the point of his glass slide flying into some superfan's skull. Superfan: excited to be struck by Nels Cline's slide, reluctantly dislodges it and gives it back to band.
2. Horn section on tour with the band, "Total [...]
On New Year's Eve, Todd Savitch attended his last (official) free show at the 9:30 Club, going out in go-go style with Chuck Brown. As one of the winners of the club's annual raffle for a full year of free shows, Savitch was legendary. According to the staff, no one who'd ever won the prize [...]
The Beastie Boys are back with background music, but the new all-instrumental The Mix-Up is funky, smooth-jazzy, Brooklyn white-boy background music. I'm uncool and even I like it, although this morning I cued up "She's Crafty" just to be sure.
I think I especially liked what Ad Rock (Adam Horovitz) had to say about it to [...]
