January (archives)
- 1/12: Get MC Skat Kat on the horn — Paula Abdul’s wasted on national TV
- 1/16: LivePhish offers up the long-awaited Headphones Jam to raise money for charity — the charity did not turn out to be the Big Red Legal Fund
- 1/21: Arcare Fire & Brimstone rains down in Montreal — America’s Favorite Canadian Band plays a supersecret church show
- 1/25: Break out the tight pants — news breaks of a 40-show Van Halen reunion
- 1/30: Reunions aplenty, The Police announce they’ll be reuniting at the Grammys
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February (archives)
- 2/5: Prince gives new meaning to Purple Rain at the Super Bowl
- 2/7: moe., apparently, believes the children are our future and subsequently sponsors an elementary school girls basketball team
- 2/7: Ron Artest prepares for String Cheese tour by malnourishing his dogs
- 2/8: Former Oysterhead sideman Trey Anastasio speaks at The Y
- 2/15: Internet Pioneer Al Gore announces he’s inventing a summer rock concert
- 2/23: Pitchfork reviews The Duo’s Play Pause Stop, only about a year too late
- 2/26: Kevin Kendrick’s A BIG YES and a small no throw down some Dope Pop
March (archives)
- 3/1: The local news awesomely picks up on the Dangers of Emo
- 3/2: The Knitting Factory celebrates 20 years of avant-garde noise
- 3/6: Bring out the gimp — Internet Radio continues to get fucked
- 3/8: Bob Weir breaks out the moves — ace power slide, cowboy
- 3/9-13: Langerado! Trey! Lots of bands! Photo galleries! Nonsense!
- 3/19: Now I can die in peace — Levon Helm dazzles at The Beacon
- 3/22: I Love Bad Music debuts on with Shine, Sweet Freedom
- 3/29: Trouble in Ashevegas — Hot Carl loves “the music RatDog”
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April (archives)
- 4/3: Wade’s World provides an inside view of the USTORM Benefit
- 4/5: More Fillmores; Live Nation CEO changes name to Bill Graham
- 4/6: Play it, Leo: The Chairman returns to the boards in NYC
- 4/8: Bernie with the Allmans — From one awesome Derek to another
- 4/13: No jail time for Crimson Dego; Trey (kinda) walks away a free man
- 4/17: We coined the term “Mariachi Metal” to describe Rod y Gab
- 4/23: The HT Baseball Preview concludes with Rob Salzer’s Mets
- 4/26: Ithaca, New York coulda been renamed “n00b City” for a day
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May (archives)
- 5/3: The Kidzz Are Alright — You Enjoy the Mall (with tramps and all)
- 5/9: Danfun kicks down a fantastic gallery of JazzFest photos
- 5/18: The most inexplicable double bill of all-time: !!! and Holy Fuck
- 5/20: A couple of aging Brits play Blind Faith tunes in the UK
- 5/25: Apollo Sunshine gets its rocks off on the Hudson River
- 5/30: Wade’s World provides an inside view of Summer Camp
June (archives)
- 6/1: Police Week ends with Stewart Copeland’s honest (and tough) review
- 6/5: Akon tosses a little white boy from the stage, Page McConnell gets mixed reviews from one guy and Wilco peddles Impossible Germany Car Company
- 6/8: Potato Waves Make Me Fries may just be the video of the year
- 6/12: The Year of the Cash-Grab Reunion continues with Genesis
- 6/15-18: Bonnaroo, motherfucker — check out Day One, Day Two, Day Three, Day Four, videos and the SuperJam rehearsal
- 6/20: The White Stripes play small ball at the Irving Fillmore Plaza Whatever
- 6/26: School’s in for summer — a full day of festival rock from the keedz
- 6/28: It’s gonna be a showdown between Van Halen versus The Other Half
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July (archives)
- 7/5: Rock Band offers us the first look at the future of video geekery
- 7/8: Hundreds of artists flew 220,000 (non-hybrid) miles for Live Earth
- 7/9: The impressive Dr. Dog streams 12 unreleased tracks on its website
- 7/12: That’s 77 phatty grilled cheeses and one monster drum circle
- 7/16: Whoa, who the fuck just played three nights at MSG?
- 7/19: Two words — INDIAN THRILLER (two more: Prisoner Thriller)
- 7/23: More reunions! Crowded House returns to New York
- 7/24: Havin’ a Bad Time — Girl Talk opens for Widespread Panic
- 7/31: Artist Jim Pollock opens his doors, Willa Wonka style
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August (archives)
- 8/1: Joe Walsh really needs to go away, but Sharon Jones can stay
- 8/8: Marco Benevento talks to us about his Live at Tonic release
- 8/9: The Beasties Boys light up a hot-as-fuck Central Park
- 8/13: A pox on Nels Cline’s house…or at least a pox on his body
- 8/20: Fuckfaces always ruin it for the rest of us; PNC bans tailigating
- 8/21: Get rich or die tryin’ — we can only hope it’s the latter
- 8/24: Ladies and gentlemen, the Hipster Olympics (genius)
- 8/26: Ted Nugent‘s officially batshit crazy, but we knew that already
- 8/30: When it’s the RIAA versus The People, we’re all losers
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September (archives)
- 9/4: Finally, some business acumen; Akron/Family knows how to sell
- 9/10: Processing a three-night Tea Leaf Green run at the Blender
- 9/11: Hey, Indiana Jones: Heady crystals, yo! (and ACL loses everyone!)
- 9/12: Farm Aid — nothing says “farm-fresh” quite like New York City
- 9/15-18: I made it to Austin City Limits, where the streets are paved with vomit — check out Day One, Day Two, Day Three, the Fire and some videos
- 9/18: God Save Their Hips — another reunion, this one, The Sex Pistols
- 9/20: Suge Knight’s tired of fingering only his enemies
- 9/24: Meg White sex tape? Nah. But giving new meaning to Get Behind Me Satan
- 9/28: After months of build-up, Van Halen finally takes the stage (for real)
- 9/28: Ryan Adams does, what you all think he’s gonna do…which is just…
October (archives)
- 10/2: I Love Bad Music brings us the real 1, 2, 3, 4 (and a Winehouse joke)
- 10/8: LCD Soundsystem officially becomes my favorite band of the year
- 10/9: Ryan Montbleau sits down to talk Patience on Sunday
- 10/10: D-Day came and went — Radiohead’s In Rainbows caused boners
- 10/12: Dave Vann joined us, shooting up Hardly Strictly Bluegrass in SF
- 10/15: Dueling profiles on The Slip’s Brad Barr and Reid Genauer
- 10/15: Bruce Springsteen + Arcade Fire = Happy Webosphere
- 10/17-19: Echo Project in Photos: Day One, Two and Three
- 10/23: STS9 rejoices as international police shut down OiNK
- 10/24: Neeko joins the fun and HT goes all artsy bohemian poet
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November (archives)
- 11/5: Eric Clapton decides to reunite every band…ever
- 11/6: Les Claypool’s Electric Apricot falls way short of Spinal Tap
- 11/7: Not enough people “Lishtening to their Britney Shhpears records”
- 11/13: Langerado finally gets around to announcing a [killer] lineup
- 11/13: Exit Chambers — Tea Leaf Reed takes over for Ben
- 11/19: Stevie Wonder and his Bar Mitzvah band rock my shit at MSG
- 11/26: moe. is not so much kidding about the jingles
- 11/26: You know reunion season is fucked when The Jackson 5 do it
- 11/28: Prepare the tanks — The Northeast finally lands a festival
- 11/29: The B List counts off the 10 Least Dangerous Rock Stars
December (archives)
- 12/1: I Wish I Wasn’t There, ‘cuz I’m Not There kinda sucks
- 12/3: Andrew Bird kicks off his shoes at The Beacon
- 12/4: Deadspin linked to our post about the Deadicated golfer (is it too much to send this guy out with Mike Weir and Sergio Garcia?)
- 12/5: Stewart Copeland’s not going hoggin’ in South America
- 12/6: Hillary Clinton may have sold burritos in H.O.R.D.E. lot in ’93
- 12/10: Glide Magazine publishes its Top 20 Albums of the Year
- 12/10: Oh, the Humanity: Led Zeppelin’s back from the dead
- 12/12: Not quite Zep, but Plant and Krauss will play Bonnaroo
- 12/12: Chuck Myers takes on the increasingly lame history of a badass
- 12/13: The Ghosts of Wayne Fontes boys also join the staff
- 12/13: How did 2007 Robert Plant go back in time?
- 12/17: And how did some blogger jerk make it into a legit Year in Review?
- 12/17-18: Dueling reviews of Neil Young in NYC and Haynes’ Xmas Jam
- 12/19: Glide publishes its Best of 2007 from the Artists’ Perspective
- 12/21: American Babies breaks out the Abbey Road medley for Xmas
It’s been a great 2007, and we’d love to have you all join us next year — so don’t die tonight from choking on vomit, even if it’s not your own vomit. We should warn you: They can’t dust for vomit. So revel, but revel in safety. Happy New Year, folks.
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Thanks for the good reads- good stuff… good stuff..
Great stuff! Looking forward to more posts in ’08!!!
Holy shit, I never caught your top 10 reasons we’ll miss SCI post. That is hilarious.
Great recap! That “hipster olymics” video just does not get old. Until it does. And then it will be like so out. I love you HT. Happy New Year!!!
Thanks for the News and the Laughs. Cant wait to see what two double-ought Eight brings!
In the words of Joe Espositio’s “You’re The Best” signature song from Karate Kid I, I’d like to pass this on to you HT:
Try to be best
‘Cause you’re only a man
And a man’s gotta learn to take it
Try to believe
Though the going gets rough
That you gotta hang tough to make it
History repeats itself
Try and you’ll succeed
Never doubt that you’re the one
And you can have your dreams!
You’re the best!
Around!
Nothing’s gonna ever keep you down
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qae_TUTeGo
So, In 2008, I’d like HT to simply:
“Put ’em in a body bag johnny. Yeah!!!!”
cheerio and Happy New Year!
Thanks for the news, newsie. Can’t wait to read your take on aught-eight.
::spoken like a journalist from the 1930’s::
Please, for the love of god and everything else that is holy in this world, let this be the last time you run that picture of Nickelback.
sweet blawg.
added it to my
keep up the great work in 08!
ugh, i’m sucking at the interwebs today.
meant to say that you made the 2007 list of lists
Thanks, Andy…
awesome, thanks!! just what i needed to get caught up. the hipster olympics clip is priceless, glad i finally got to see it.
happy new year, hidden track!!