Each year the taste makers of a Yahoo! group named NYC-Freaks come together to throw a party featuring some of their favorite “just about to break” bands. Freaks Ball VIII continues the trend on February 9 at Brooklyn’s Southpaw with a lineup featuring Bustle In Your Hedgerow, American Babies and a mystery band currently labeled The Bearded Ones.
Bustle members and Babies’ Scott Metzger and Sir Joe Russo will both be making their sixth consecutive Freaks Ball appearance, leading us to question whether anyone in the history of rock has been in more up-and-coming bands than those two. We’re still holding onto our Metzger rookie cards, just in case Go Home Hippie finally achieves Soulja Boy status.
Let’s see what else happened while you unwrapped gifts or ate Moo Shu Pork:
- Wired looks for Live Music Webcasting to start making sense in 2008
- Rush’s Neil Peart wins a Drummer of the Year awards for a change
- Jay-Z stepped down from his post of President at Def Jam
- The Lemonheads squeeze out a tasty show in Boston
- Screw Guitar Hero, try your hand at Heroin Hero
- James Brown’s family continues to fight over his estate a year after his death
- Uncle Neddy fills us in on the remaining shows of (the rest of) the year
Finally, we’d like to congratulate David Pirkle, Butch Weiss and Dean for winning our JamCam Episode 14: Wanee 2007 giveaway. It looks like Boxing Day picked up where Christmas left off for that lot.
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I’m pretty sure The Bearded Ones will be the Budos Band, who are on Daptone Records with Sharon Jones. They bleed funk. Phat/dank as hell, make your pick.
Oh hells yeah Budos Band – A name shortened from Los barbudos which, of course, means the bearded ones.